This N is for YOU. NEVER STOP LOVING YOURSELF THROUGH THE JOURNEY OF THIS LIFE. I’ll tell you it has its mountains and valleys. It has its deep curves. You’ll run off the road into ditches. You’ll fall off cliffs but YOU WILL (and many times surprisingly) SURVIVE! Sometimes you won’t know what hit you but, when you come through you’ll begin to remember who you are. So NEVER stop loving yourself through the journey. No one is expecting you to be perfect even if the no one was someone that told you to be perfect. They misunderstood so charge it to their heads (logic) and not their hearts(spirit). Bless their hearts ♥… We are not here to be perfect.
I say NEVER stop loving yourself through this journey because I’ve done that. I’ve not forgiven myself for my mistakes, what I thought were EPIC failures and all of the imperfections I struggle with. When you can’t forgive yourself you can’t fully love yourself. You’ll hold yourself back with guilt but, it’s not okay to ignore these areas either which many people do. Ignoring your mistakes, your failures and imperfections creates an illusion of perfectionism. Those are the lofty self righteous people. And the ones that boast are the ones that never address their errors and keep on hurting themselves and others. They lack the courage to face their mistakes, failures or imperfections. And change for us all can be daunting because it requires the admittance that we did something wrong and heavens forbid we realize we are not perfect! Plus change is work!
But you, you’re not them. You just want to get it right. But, if you stop loving yourself as you go through this life with unforgiveness for yourself, it’s going to be one hell of a journey. Unforgiveness for yourself is like stacking another backpack 🎒 on your other backpacks for this journey. Who needs that? Mistakes are lessons. Failures are opportunities to learn. Imperfections… Some can be fixed, some have to be accepted, others will be worked on until you leave here. Whew…. What a relief!
Once I got that revelation I could work on forgiving myself along the way in this journey. Forgiveness is sometimes quick and sometimes a tedious long drawn out process. But putting one foot in front of the other means you’re still moving forward.
-Nikki
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Such a beautiful post, Nikki.. I agree, learning to love yourself is the most important thing we can do.. and it begins with forgiveness 🙂 Hope you’ve had a blessed Sunday!
Thank you. You have a blessed Sunday too
This is so true. The hardest part is forgiving ourselves (at least for me), but our experiences are so much a part of who we. We are given obstacles to overcome because somewhere along the line we are going to have a profound impact on someone else along their journey, and so on and so on. Take care. Dawn
Yes indeed! Somewhere along the journey were will have a profound impact on someone. Take Care 😊
How beautifully written!!! You said it so well …loving ourself is the first thing we need to learn. Loving oneself only helps loving others. 🙂 I couldn’t see your about page to know more about you! Would love to know you more. Hope you are having a good time during the challenge. All the best for the remaining ones. Cheers 😀 ❤
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Thank you! I’ll rewrite my About page soon. I hope you enjoy the rest of your night. Wonderful to meet you via A-Z
Would be more than happy to read more about you 🙂