I Value Myself More Than the Person I Like

Because I am worth it

Suman Negi
The Personal Growth Project
2 min readJan 7, 2022

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There must be someone who appeals to you, somebody who caught your attention.
There is a chance that they popped into your head as soon as you read this line.
Who is that? If you don’t mind, could you tell me?
Ok, don’t stress out…you don’t have to.

What’s so fascinating to me is that you meet someone and in no time at all, you admire them or maybe find them captivating to the point where you want to change yourself to be more like them.
Try to think of the first thing you notice when you see someone who is attractive and you want to get to know them.

It’s obvious to everyone who looks at them that they are so good, they are so attractive, they are so smart, they are so intelligent, and then what we do is put them on a pedestal.

To make matters worse, when we put someone on a pedestal, it means we’re in the lower ranks.
Suddenly you aren’t good enough.
Now you aren’t intelligent enough.
You aren’t beautiful enough.

This is where we start getting discouraged and sometimes we don’t feel good about ourselves and want to change something about ourselves.
Having said that it’s not going to be a long post, simply a reminder of something you should remember throughout your life.

To be loved, you have to love yourself first and not someone you like. This means you have to learn to love yourself before loving others.
Don’t worry too much about your flaws, don’t spend hours just staring at the mirror comparing yourself to others because we all have some and it is not about our flaws but our outlook, our interpretation.

You can never change who you are because that is your inbuilt personality or you can say it is your default setting.

Furthermore, being yourself is the most important thing because you can become better at things while still being yourself.

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Suman Negi
The Personal Growth Project

Namaste, this is Suman! Life and Growth work simultaneously, and so do I. Learning and sharing all about life. Are you ready to join the ride? Say YES to Life.