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:hug:

it's the same way you get to Rockefeller Center


practice practice practice

I think the start of my journey was when someone suggested I write a list of 10 good things about myself

it seemed an impossible chore, but once I started I found I could list quite a few.

then whenever I felt bad about myself, I'd think about that list and how could I make those gifts/talents a bigger part of my life.

the other thing I stopped doing was being an arrogant, selfish asshole and started (appropriately) treating the people around me as I would like to be treated.

and I strive to do one good thing every day for someone else that will have no impact on me, in other words to do a good deed that could have no favorable repercussions in my life.

slowly but surely I started respecting myself more, treating myself better and today I do love me. In a grown up way that doesn't mean I don't recognize my faults, but I can love me in spite of them

ya know?

:hi: