The Art Of Destroying Oneself

Laura Annabelle
The Ethical World
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3 min readFeb 22, 2018

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Have you ever felt “not good enough”? Why is that? Who made you believe and feel that you aren’t good enough? How did they express that belief of you? How did that affect you? How much power did you give to it to have power over you? You know the quote: “what you give power to, can have power over you if you let it” I quote this a lot online and verbally, vocally in person!

Does anyone who tells people they aren’t good enough realize how much real Jane it actually does to someone enough to not only take away their self worth and make them feel less than, but also bring themselves to suicide? So what have we done about this issue? What haven’t we been doing about this that we should be doing? Is it the stigma that we are actually giving the power to prevent us from seeking help or advocating and standing up for those who feel voiceless?

Believe me, I know what it feels like being voiceless, like your voice was taken away from you, to be invisible, misunderstood, not heard and not being supported by those who are most important to us. Friends and family! Mental health and mental illness is real and being ignorant about a lot of things like this and telling us we aren’t good enough in so many ways and not realizing how much harm that does to our society and how that plays a part in any small yet important amount of progress towards world peace!

We all say we want world peace but instead of doing what we need to do, we act in selfish, ignorant, immature and stubborn ways blinding us from what’s really important, more important than the statements and beliefs we stand by every single second of our own lives. If we want to gain progress towards world peace, we gotta know it starts from within. Figure out what you are actually feeling or fighting inside.

Find the anger behind your anger. You aren’t angry at anyone, you are just angry at something you did, and you put it all on someone else that doesn’t deserve to be treated when they did nothing wrong to be treated like that. They did nothing wrong, it’s within you to find out what you are fighting against and make peace with it. The three stages: awareness, acceptance and action. Now, what do u wanna do next? Are you gonna continue with your old ways, or do you wanna make a change and be kind to people and to yourself after you’ve found the anger behind your anger and making peace with it!

And then working towards making some healthier changes to your lifestyle! To me, that sounds like a great start! Oh and one more thing, if you start with this, here this: it’s good enough, you are good enough no matter what society or any voices in our world or your own head tries to convince you otherwise!

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Laura Annabelle
The Ethical World

I’m just a young adult trying to figure out how to live her new adult life.