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How to like yourself
It’s not that difficult to get people to like you. Be pleasant. Be kind. Treat others the way you’d like others to treat you. These are simple life lessons most of us have ingrained deep within our souls from the toddler years. But many of us are quick to like other people’s social media posts yet struggle to love, or simply like themselves.
What happened to your life and how many hearts did you break? What lessons have actually stuck and how much love did you take? And what is more: Do you actually like yourself?
An article I once wrote about meeting my teen idols as an adult scored more than 40,000 “likes” across two platforms of social media. But do 40,000 people like me? No, of course not. They don’t even know me. They might think I am totally annoying — a book nerd, a slam poet, a collector of typewriters, a Tolkien, Bronte, Bukowski & Conan Doyle fan and mother of boys who is so interested in male issues my friends often have to remind me I am female and should be mouthing off about female-centric rights, not male.
And yet I’d like to think perhaps half of the people who liked my stories on social media would not dislike me eyeball-to-eyeball.
