The first step towards confidence is not being afraid to be ugly.
Once you get over the fear of being unattractive and stop equating beauty with other good things in life, like friends, love and happiness, it's a lot easier to love being yourself unconditionally.
Your job is not to sit around and be pretty and easy on everyone else's eyes.
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Like every time you trip and fall, instead of saying "I'm just a disaster human," say "I'm the epitome of grace and beauty."
Or like, when you draw a picture you're not 100% happy with, instead of saying "my art is trash," say something like "you know, I think it's time for we replace the Mona Lisa."
When you do that you get to make a joke, but y...... 2 reply
Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love *being* yourself.
If your goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the "correct" feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.
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I would go back to my old self from 10 to 15 and tell her that she should relax and save energy tell her it's not worth it and to stop worrying and giving too much energy (im talking abt studying) and watch much more anime and not b so hard on herself yeah and also to break up with many friends and to harden her heart and not to consider that gurl ...... reply
stop my family from moving so that we could prevent the event that drove us to homelessness that year. that was the starting point of a long, dragged out and fucked up downfall. reply
I want to be smart without trying because I can just do things in a snap I can motivate myself but I don't have the brains and i'm too lazy to study reply
I thought I would comment on this because I currently work at a nursing home carrying out physical and occupational therapy plans for very old and/or very disabled patients.
for myself personally, I would consider a disabled persons entirely datable so long as they were capable of living independently/managing their condition primarily on their own...... 1 reply
