I live in a world where I'm not really allowed (at least not publicly) to love my self. To openly admit to the world that I am the most amazing and beautiful person I know would be viewed by "the world" as narcissism at its worst...lol.
Narcissitic, arrogant, cocky, blah, blah, blah...
But, the more I think about the statement, "I am the most amazing and beautiful person that I know," I realize that this statement is absolutely at the core of self-love!
How could it not be?
How can I NOT be the most amazing and beautiful person that I know? I'm really the ONLY person that I am capable of knowing directly...I may "know" other people, but it's really a "knowing about" them, rather than knowing them. The only person I can ever truly know is myself! So, of course I would be the most amazing and beautiful person that I know!
I AM the most amazing and beautiful person that I can ever truly know!
If I had a daughter today, I would raise her from day one to know, without doubt, that she is the most amazing and beautiful person she will ever know. And she would feel the depth of that truth with every waking breath (or, at least that would be my goal). And in those moments when she forgot, I would remind her of that truth until she didn't need to be reminded any more.
We need to remind each other how amazing and beautiful we are, because even if we know this truth, it's very easy to forget. And the people around us, well, they don't remember to remind us of that truth, either. So we end up walking around our world thinking other people are more amazing and beautiful than we are...and we start making decisions based on what these other "more amazing and beautiful" people think about us and what we should do with our lives (and feeling like crap about ourselves because of it).
But nobody knows me as well or as deeply and truly as I know myself...nobody. So, how the hell can anyone else make decisions about me or my life for me?
To love my self is to feel the deepest truth that I really am the most amazing and beautiful person that I know...the only person that I can ever truly know...and knowing this truth changes everything...