After getting beaten up by the reality of how messy the world is, I started to learn things and set healthy boundaries between myself and others. The title suggests about me ending like me, I know I sound narcissistic, but no I'm not.
- Over the years since I gained consciousness, I had a hard time dealing with my weaknesses and choose to ignore those sides of me thinking that it's helpful, not knowing that the consequence is causing a lot of unresolved issues to pile up and become overwhelming. Cultivating self-acceptance, opens up my awareness of what I can and cannot, this awareness taught me to say no to things that aren't helping me become the better version of me, and it's satisfying.
- I have made mistakes in the past, and this haunted me a long time ago. As of this writing, I was able to realize that in any actions we do, a consequence follows. This consequence is neither good nor bad, depending on how you see things from your perspective. As to what they say, happiness is a choice, it comes in different shapes and it's all up to me to see things through it.
- This helped me big time. By not comparing myself to others the chance of me pitying myself was decreased. Social media contributed a lot to lower my self-confidence. Then everything changed when I came up with the realization that social media is a platform where everyone is sharing the highlights of their life and not the life they truly have.
- No judgments. I just realized that every person in existence has their own life, they have their own beliefs, ideology, experiences, principles, etc. Every action of the man that I meet is just the result of how they see life in their own eyes. If someone has done something terrible, doesn't necessarily mean they're terrible. Through this thought, I was able to stop judging and instead show more compassion.
- Among the list, this was the hardest, but I was able to accomplish this. I have been through a lot of unfair experiences that were caused by others to me, making me hold grudge against those persons. That grudge caused me bitterness and fed my selfish ego. Not until I realized that forgiveness isn't only for the people that caused me harm, but also for myself for allowing those things to be in my heart and settle.
-This is the best. I always have that tendency to hold into the past and become anxious about what the future holds for me. Despite the constant feeding of my spirit with the word of God, t's funny that I still worry a lot about something that isn't even happening. I was truly grateful to the Lord for giving me so much opportunity to know Him more and have a personal relationship.
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do. -Brené Brown