Taking care of myself

How much you take care of yourself today and the makeup of your daily routine reflects your level of aspiration and hope. A person without any aspirations and hope for the future is highly likely to be aimless and self-loathing. If you don’t have something to live to see in the future, you will not take care of yourself or love yourself because you will not have good enough reason to.

Self-destructive behavior is a sign of misguided passion. Why would you hurt yourself if you are looking forward to living another day? I once reached a point where I was a danger to myself and it was because of deep emotional disturbances. There was a person who came into my life and hurt me so much that I lost my way. It took a while, but I learned to deal with it and redirect my passion toward positive things. That’s when I noticed the power of hope and aspiration.

If I had not resolved to pick myself up, live my life and change it for the better, I would have missed out on so much. I realize that I am worth so much more than what she tried to make me think, and my self-worth increases with each day.

There are a series of questions that brought me back to my senses: Why should I stop living? Should she really be credited with having ended me? Did she begin me in the first place? All these questions helped turn my attention away from the harm that was done, enabling me to focus on healing and personal reparation.

The discomforts of today are made bearable by the hope of tomorrow’s change of circumstance. The future I saw for myself motivated me to love myself. I got in touch with my inner self and recommenced my pursuit of happiness, with newfound hope.