Liking yourself

[Deacon]

I agree. I don't understand the Chuck Norris appeal.

I'll have to serenade the group with some more Garth Brooks during Skype.

 

[127.0.0.1]

How do you do it?

You mean on FB? Kinda narcissistic don't you think?

 

[saturnne]

I'm awesome, wonderful, and "fearfully made" by God, my Father. You know, my Father is your Father too, and He though you were pretty darn awesome and amazing and inexpressibly perfect when He made you, too. That's why there shouldn't be too much of a problem liking ourselves...but Satan sucks away our confidence in God from us once in a while...

 

[acropolis]

I like myself, but I don't like like myself.

 

[Andrew12]

YouTube - Through Heaven's Eyes

 

[vanillaicecream]

Bump

 

[BlessedLYT]

Life is so complicated

It sure is. How I learned how to love myself? I honestly asked God to show me. I had to love Him as God first though. I think I am the most undisciplined child God ever had I pray for all the time.

 

[BlessedLYT]

Hopefully God will send you people that will bless you too. They are called true friends.

 

[CCHIPSS]

What make us dislike ourselves is usually when we compare ourselves with other people. Have you considered that what you have is God given, and what those people have is also God given?

Daniel 4:17English Standard Version (ESV)

17 The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.’

 

[Messy]

Sometimes I feel like my aunt who sat by herself day in day out and said: I'm having so much fun with myself. Lol it's funny, lately my mom told me: you're just like my sister, that same stupid childish humor.

 

[Deidre32]

It takes a long time to learn to like yourself, if you are struggling with that aspect of your life. I grew up in an abusive household, and when I hit adulthood, I always second guessed myself, and gravitated towards bad guys, who only wanted to hurt and use me. It all seemed familiar to me, though, but I had to create a new outlook for myself, about myself, otherwise, I'd be dating jerks the rest of my life. So, it takes time to get to the root cause of why you don't like yourself, before you can commit to working on it. Now, I really do respect and like who I am, and I don't accept any bad guys or toxic people into my life anymore. One ex bf tried to weasel his way back in, but I said nope. I've changed, and I wish you well, but NOPE.

That felt good to make a better choice for myself. And once you make ONE good choice, the rest starts to follow suit, like dominoes. And your life will take on a whole new tone, and you will never not like yourself again.

 

[keith99]

Just focus on loving others instead. I think God cares more about how we treat others than how we view ourselves.

I think you nailed it. I look at the kind, decent and occasionally brave things I have done and find I have no trouble liking myself.

If instead I had pulled back my hand instead of reaching out too often I might have a very hard time liking myself.

 

[MehGuy]

You have to learn how to delude yourself.

Focus on the good, and downplay or flat out ignore the bad.

Studies show that many depressed people are actually more rational than the general population. They're just more honest about their shortcomings.