Love is the Answer

Love Yourself First

 

 I wanted to write some from my own experience on how I began to love myself and realized it wasn't selfish in doing so. It might begin as far back as childhood when I knew no matter what was going on around me that I loved being in my own company. I enjoyed being independent and finding things that I liked to do. I have memories from when I was about age 6 or 7 of leaving my parents house and going out into the neighborhood in search of friends. I was a happy child and I feel at that time I really wanted to share those happy moments with others. I am still a very social person and continue to seek new friends. It's funny how much we learn as we grow up. Not everyone can be our friend. I have realized more and more as I age that that need for friends isn't there as much as it used to be. I think I had too many expectations from people around me and when things didn't go the way I thought it should I would be disappointed and unhappy with those people. What I have come to know most people have enough to deal with in their own lives that there isn't much room for alot of other people. Most folks work or attend school or maybe they have children and just the normal daily activities of life is enough to handle. Having friends to hang out with is an added bonus to life. I cherish all my friends in my heart. I miss them when we don't talk or see each other for a long time but as they say "that's life." So it always comes back to our selfs. After all the hurt feelings and maybe even heart break we go back to loving ourselfs. It can either make you bitter or better. I choose to let the experiences in life teach me lessons and hopefully I can be a better person because of it.