Self Love?

During an online dialog last week, I was posed with the question: "What is your definition of self-love?" My response was:

 "Self-love is pivotal to our "Existence". With self-love, I now live without any strings, without carrying any excessive baggage, or making personal compromises. To know that I am "ENOUGH" is important and to me this is all that counts…

 ENOUGH… I am enough.

 I have ‘heard’ once or twice (or maybe a few times more) in my life that “I am more than enough to some or not enough to others…” But nevertheless I am ENOUGH. In the past I have spent time trying to be ‘enough’ to someone else instead of trying to be ‘enough’ for myself. I have had those strings attached, carried that excessive baggage and made more personal compromises than I even care to admit. I have come to the realization that I am ENOUGH. And that was all that mattered from that day forth.

I have learned to celebrate the fact that I am ENOUGH without making excuses. In the past, I had an excuse for almost everything that went wrong in my life. I have had personal excuses for why this or that did not work out. Professional excuses for why I did not get the promotion or recognition that I deserved and financial excuses…. Excuses… I make no more excuses; I am ENOUGH!

By realizing that I am ENOUGH, I have found inner peace within myself… no more second-guessing my  ‘divine’ purpose in this world. Whatever our Maker has in store for me was written before I was born; therefore I just have to be happy with it!  “For you have created my innermost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” Psalm 139:13-14 (NIV)

I have learned to be that spontaneous individual and stop trying to live my life by a schedule…I have learned to celebrate life as if it today was my last day… I have learned to accept other people and their faults… I have a few of my own! I am still learning…

Now some may consider self-love as vain, having self-satisfaction, self-admiration, self-praise, self-flattery or self-glorification. I consider it individuality: those unique qualities and characteristics that make those distinctions between you from me… 

Because we are all ENOUGH, I will accept you as I hope you will accept me….

I am what I am… I am all that I am… I am it!

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