How many of us have learned to love ourselves or even learned to forgive ourselves entirely? How often have we compared, envied or regretted because no matter what station we are in life, there will be times when we will feel inadequate or incomplete?
We will make mistakes, it’s inevitable. And who doesn’t know that you have to learn to forgive yourself. And when you forgive yourself you’ll say, ‘Well, if I’d known better, I’d have done better.’ You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is to yourself and really it is the hardest thing to do.
The fact of the matter is the most difficult thing in the world is accept who you are and not try to be who you are not. Be happy with who you are. Love yourself. What a cliché, you think?
There must be a reason why we are born tall, short, fat or thin, clever or not too smart. When a society sees you as ugly, unattractive, too sexy, too black, too white, too yellow, too poor, too fat, too thin, too outspoken, too outrageous, too sexual, that’s bound to be conflicts. But the real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself, not to be too self critical or insecure. If we keep doing that, we’ll be stunted, we’ll never grow.
Can we ever be completely satisfied with ourselves and convince ourselves that we have everything we need right here, right now? I mean we should love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s going to happen, who we’re doing to meet, where we’re going to wind up. We’ll never know what hand you’re going to get dealt with next. Or we can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Pious or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves.
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Aaron took a day off to unpack all the stuff he brought back from hostel. Found a few old stuff staggered all around but one of em’ caught his eyes. It was this.
Memories came flashing back. He figured out he will keep this story for another day. His happy story.