I know what they mean by 'love yourself' now. I was looking at myself and just snapped, "Why is everyone so mean to me? Why do they take advantage of me!?"
It means that even though everyone else hates you and tries to take advantage of you, at the very least you can love yourself if no one else does. It also allows you to be a better father, because you can take care of your body like it is your son.
Everyone I meet online is a dick, most other men are douchebags, my friends aren't particularly loyal, and women don't find me attractive. However I can still love myself and hold myself above the importance of others and their opinions and problems! I can still be a person that I personally have come to be proud of, even if everyone else is too much of a piece of shit to appreciate it. I found the cure to depression and I'm so happy now!
Dont care didnt read Im gonna beat you up faggot square up
Landon Wright
Not a bad outlook to have. Focus on your health too.
Hudson Torres
I've always loved myself, but I'm on a similar rediscovery journey. I've wasted my youth being helpful, engaged in other people's endeavors, supportive, constructive.
I earned a spot as an important member of my communities, but I didn't get anything useful in return for my thousands of hours poured in. No long-lasting friendships, no people interested on MY endeavors, no help with my problems. I was vicariously living through other people's improvement and forgot to improve myself. In part because I was lazy, but in part because I was waiting for someone to invite me to.
Then I understood I have to be selfish in order to survive. No wasting my own free time helping others, when I could be helping myself and coming out of it better.
That was a miserable time, though, as being selfish is not my nature. And I have little drive to improve myself alone. So I'm currently on the next step of this self-discovery ladder, where I understand how to strike a balance between selfishness and altruism.
It's a give-and-take world, so I am helpful to those who are helpful to me. I will put in the time for you, but if you have nothing to offer in return, then I will go back to the people who reciprocate.
The feedback loop, the virtuous circle is slowly but surely bringing me hope of achievement one day.
those are actually some really beautiful and helpful thoughts you have there,
keep up the grind wagmi
Luis Mitchell
Can you even prove that the Self exists OP? After you have died the bacteria in your stomach will continue living on without you, but you could never live without it.
Can you show me how you can even demarcate where the Self to love begins? Your post seems stupid
Tyler White
Yeah some other people tried to discourage me in picrel but then i took my own advice while reading it and remembered i dont care what he thinks because my opinion is above his, always
its all you reliably have bro. Be angry like i was. Look in the mirror and realize this is the body you were given by god/gods/luck/fat/whatever you believe in and internalize that this is what you have to work with. Then resolve to make the best of it
Samuel Moore
>Guise i've been doing the "just stop caring" pepe xd
nobody cares, kill yourself.
Sebastian Long
Another way of bringing about such an epiphany is simply by understanding not to take life, and by extension, yourself, too seriously. It's short, it's unfair, and it's devoid of any objective meaning, so take it easy and don't be too hard on yourself. Just try and make the best of it and of yourself.
Nicholas Kelly
>Another way of bringing about such an epiphany is simply by understanding not to take life, and by extension, yourself, too seriously
King shit, I realized this when I was on shrooms a while back
No one but yourself is responsible for your outlook on life and happiness, once you realize this no one can take that from you unless they KILL you.
You're still living, you're winning, you beat the evolutionary rat race to come here. Based.
Blake Gray
I care fag. Org
Hunter Young
you had it easy then. i realized it via a near mental breakdown clawing at a reason why everyone was mean to me and then i snapped. I asked 'what if their view of me doesn't even matter? I deserve better goddamn it. What if the only judgement that means anything is that of my own?
Brayden Perry
I just cannot get past the negatives about me. They weight me down to the point that I feel like the current moment and future doesnt matter if one has terrible past.
Jack Brooks
OP here. I had an inferiority complex (bullied in HS back in the 00s by over 1000 people) before this epiphany. I had to take meds and go to therapy didnt work, big surprise). This is the only way bro. You have to look at yourself in the mirror for hours if needbe and ask yourself 'do i deserve respect?' if you say yes then ask why sociopaths would every respect anyone. The next step is realizing that your own perspective of who you are matters and is the only thing you can rely on
