Loving YOU

 "Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."

- Robert Bresson

"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."

- Alan Cohen

"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

- Leo Buscagli

We all of issues with ourselves...I know I do. You know, the old, "Ugh I wish that I could have hair like hers," or "I'm not smart enough," or "Coach doesn't think I'm good enough" or "I don't have what it takes..." and "I used to be good but not anymore."

Yes, there are too many times where we are down on ourselves- where we come to treat ourselves like an enemy rather than a friend. But as the sayings all point out above, this is YOUR life- not anyone else's. This is YOUR chance to do something great NOT to impress anyone else or make anyone else happy but to do what you enjoy and making a DIFFERENCE in the world.

Too many people go about living to get fame- be the fastest, the smartest, the prettiest, the most popular, etc living for these types of reasons will ALWAYS cause you to, somewhere down the road, not like yourself- You will hit rock bottom because this is living in expectations and expectations can never always be met; therefore, you will be disappointed.

But if you live for the right things than I think you will come to love yourself (not in an egotistical way) and truly be able to shine and help others around you. YOU choose happiness, it does not choose you. Love yourself and appreciate you for you. If you need to make changes to become a better person than do them...but don't be so hard on yourself. If you don't love yourself and enjoy who you are and what you can bring to the table how can you expect anyone else to?