Self love is the basis of who we are as men and women. It influences our actions, behaviors and attitudes. Where how we feel about ourselves is established in childhood and nurtured through the teen years and evolves in adulthood. We love ourselves, the way we were loved and taught how to love. Through our upbringings, family relationships and our peers. Thus if we aren’t taught to love ourselves; we won’t value our minds, bodies and souls as we should. If we aren’t shown or given love, growing up; we don’t know how to love others the way they deserve. Nor do we know what to kind of love to expect from others. So we often settle because we aren’t fully aware of how to love ourselves. In turn we may let others take advantage of us or settle for less than we deserve. Because if we don’t know better; we can’t do better.
For self love is a life time journey; we never stop loving ourselves. Its just that we need to learn to love ourselves better and want to change our ways. As we can never change the past, our upbringings or mistakes we have made. All we can do is move on with hopes of becoming a better person. Thus its important to understand what self love means and how to love ourselves; each day. Understanding we will make mistakes; until we figure out “what’s for us and what’s not.” Caring for ourselves physically, mentally and emotionally; to better ourselves inside and out. Remembering who we are, the reason we wake up every day and what the future may possibly hold. For we are all a work in progress and life is too short to not spend it; “grinding” or loving the skin we are in.