What is Love? Love as you know is a strong emotional feeling that you have towards a person, activity, job, etc. Love is beautiful, spiritual, overwhelming energy like no other and it reminds us that we are alive.
The foundation of everything you do should be love, because if it’s not, then you are just surviving not living. But, oftentimes, you may forget that loving yourself is just as important as loving anyone or anything.
Self-love should really be your first love because it will teach everyone else how to love you.
What is Love? As a little girl maybe you didn’t have a father or father figure that said, “you’re special” and “you’re beautiful.” Instead, the words and the conversations about you may have been negative and hurtful. So the lack of emotional support may have sent you down a path of looking
for the feeling of being special and beautiful from all the wrong men.
This path may have led to an opposite outcome such as physical abuse and or emotional abuse, which ultimately damaged your self-esteem even further. Also, every time you’ve allowed a man who does not care about you to enter your body, he took a piece of your self-esteem with him when he left.
The unfortunate thing is that you may not even be aware of how low your self-esteem really is.
What is Love? It should also be gratitude, self-love, and inner peace because when you make life choices from a place of low self-esteem your life will be unfulfilled and at times miserable. The other question you may ask yourself is: “How did I get here?” This question will play inside your head but the answer will forever be hidden from you unless you journey backward.
The current situation you are in today is due to choices made several months, years, or even decades ago. If you think avoiding your issues will make them go away; in reality, what happens is you’ll just keep reliving the same situations over and over again until you deal with them honestly.
What is love? Well, it should be what you see in the mirror, but too often it is not that, instead, you may be focusing on your flaws instead of celebrating what makes you special, beautiful, and powerful; that’s real Love.
I spent many years unconsciously thinking poorly about myself and dated men who felt the same way about me. Later, I started working with women through Social Service Programs who also unknowingly struggled with low self-esteem, that is when I realize I was not alone.
Not only was I not alone, but they’re also weren’t many women in my surroundings that had healthy high self-esteem; not girlfriends, family members, or even co-workers. This is a very sad reality for most of us.
What is Love? Most countries do not value women even though we are the giver of life. But that does not mean that you can’t value yourself; you must value yourself and you must teach the young girls around you to value themselves, and this is how we change the world.
What is Love? To love yourself means you don’t treat yourself poorly, therefore, you don’t allow others to treat you poorly whether that is Family, Friends, Jobs, or a Man.
