WE DON'T HAVE TO FAKE IT!

Looking around at my close friends, I realized that none of us knew how to love ourselves. We preached about self-love and taking care of ourselves, but in practice, none of us did. I think the saddest part was that none of us even knew where to start.

None of us knew how to 'self-love,' so we faked it. We faked loving ourselves. Isn't that just the craziest thing?.

We were so busy seeking that love in others that we stopped looking for it within ourselves, and that was our biggest mistake.

I've always felt a strong need to please others, to make others happy, even if it meant sacrificing my own happiness and mental health. And I think a lot of my friends felt the same way. We were all strong, resilient people, and yet when it comes to loving ourselves, we fell short.

We knew how to bring smiles to the faces of strangers, and yet we faked our own.
We live in a generation full of people who don't know how to love themselves. People who are beautiful, handsome, clever and capable, but have fallen to the deception and lies that society has engrained so deeply into our minds that we don't even realize it's there.

We are all worthy of love. But that love doesn't need to come from others and our worth is not defined by the love we receive or doesn't receive from another human being. We must unlearn the teachings of the society and look within ourselves to find the love we truly desire. We need to start from the beginning, before our minds were filled with the need to please and the need to sacrifice.

Once we are happy on our own, and we learn how to love ourselves without faking it, the rest of it won't seem so difficult anymore...