Do you see you?

Life conditions us to look at what we’re getting, rather than what is given.

That means that we focus on what we’re giving, and not what others are receiving from us.

That’s how we end up misinterpreting the signals that we get from them, while they also misinterpret the signals that they get from us.

The result: A lot of avoidable misunderstandings that break down good relationships.

The reason why everything is tainted or beautified by your self-worth is because that is the lens or the filter through which you view life.

When we have an unhealthy self-worth, life seems dreary and morbid without any hope that what’s important to us will be important to anyone else.

When our self-worth is healthy, we see opportunity to create value, and find reason to uplift others rather than wait to be uplifted.

Self-worth is often over complicated.

Simply put, it’s our belief in our ability to add value to the world and to the lives around us.

When we doubt this, or become distracted when our efforts to add value were rejected by someone significant, we question our value first, before we consider that they may have been going through their own difficulty that caused them not to see or believe in what we were offering.

That distraction is what leads to self-loathing.

Self-loathing therefore sets in when we stop seeing ourselves for who we are, and start seeing ourselves the way we think others see us.

Perhaps this is just another reason why the eyes are the windows to the soul.

When last did you see you and not what you think society thinks of you?

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