Learning to Love Ones Self

"People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being ...in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it."--Andrew Matthews

I know, deep down, I need to learn to love myself more. Because how is anyone going to be able to love a person who doesn't even love themselves. I know deep down that there are times I doubt myself or I think I am not good enough, but I am. I am beautiful, strong, funny, smart, and so many other things. How can someone want to be with me, when I don't want to be with myself half the time.

There are a lot of things I wanna learn, and one of them is being happy in my own skin. To be able to laugh at myself, look in the mirror even after I cry and say "I am beautiful." I need to be happy being alone, I can't rely on others to always be there for me. These past 2 nights alone have been hard, but I need to learn how to be happy and comfortable by myself.

This is something I can grow from, these past few days have really opened my eyes.

I am beautiful, I do not need a mans affections to make me feel special. I am.