love myself as much as i love others
It's easy to love

It seems to be much harder to love myself.

Society seems to have a “stigma” attached to people loving themselves. Like it’s wrong to put myself first, to make sure that I am ok, no matter what.

I am not saying not to care about other people. I care too much at times, and I believe that’s where the problem lies for me. For me, it is very easy to love other people, to respect them and treat them well.

I believe that to truly love anyone else, I must love and respect myself first…....



Comments:

good for you...

...take care of you…;-)

i am not sure that you really can love someone more than yourself. you can give more to someone else, i am just not sure that you can love them more than you love yourself.

anyways, great post, congrats!

with appreciation,

james

Ability to love

“If an individual is able to love productively,he loves himself too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.”
—Erich Fromm, “the Art of Loving”


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