Why should you love yourself more?

We live in a world where self confidence and self esteem are generally dramatically low. Where we are taught from a young age that you should always be improving yourself, and that loving yourself is rude or vain.

Well I’m here to break those walls down. After years of hating basically everything about myself, and living with that intense negativity, I have decided its time to start appreciating myself for who I am. Because there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.

And I believe you should do that too. You deserve that love, you deserve that happiness, and you deserve to not spend every single day hating on yourself for things that are often out of your control.

So here are some very, very good reasons why you should love yourself.

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5 reasons why you should love yourself

You’re unique

You are. You’re completely unique.

Out of all the billions of people that are on this planet, not a single one is the same as you. And that is an amazing thing.

You could travel all over the world and not meet another human being the same as you. Maybe some people look similar to you, or have similar personalities as you. But no other person is exactly the same.

You should embrace the qualities that make you, you. No one else has them. You may look at other people and wish you had their face or body, their voice or sense of humour. But if you did, you wouldn’t be you.

These things that make you different, are what makes you special!

You offer something to this world

As well as being unique, you have your very own talents and strengths to offer the world.

You may not always feel like it, and may not always see it, but you do. Everyone is good at something, at least one thing. It may not seem that important to you, but it is.

Your talents are unique to you, they’re special to you, and they make you who you are.

Have a think about something you’re good at, really think about it. I think your life would be really different if you didn’t have that particular skill or talent, and that’s why you should love yourself for it!

You’re a miracle

I know we all know about the birds and the bees, and how babies are made so I won’t go too much into that.

But if you think about how many sperm are all in competition for that egg in order to make that fetus which grew into you, the chances of you actually being created are quite slim.

You are a walking miracle, and I like to believe that means you’re here for a reason. If that doesn’t mean that you’re a special, unique and wonderful human being then I don’t know what would!

When you think about yourself, try to give yourself the love and respect a miracle like you deserves. Love yourself. You’re amazing.

There are people around you who love you

We all have different struggles in life, and we all have different people around us who care about us. But regardless of who you are and what your circumstances are, you have at least one person in your life who loves you.

This person values you in their life. They couldn’t imagine their life without you in it. And you make their life infinitely better.

It’s not always easy to see it. When I’m in the throws of depression I find it almost impossible to feel like there are people who care about me, because I feel like a burden to those people instead. But I promise you, you are not. These people care and love you even on your worst days.

You should love yourself because if there was nothing to love about you then these people wouldn’t love you.

Now not everyone is going to love you, not everyone is going to like you, unfortunately. It’s just a fact of life. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t love yourself though. There are always people who love you for who you are. Embrace that. Love yourself.

You are amazing

I may not know you, but I know that you’re amazing. You’re a unique human being, with unique talents, and with people who love you. I think that makes you a pretty amazing human being.

You may not always feel amazing. It’s okay to have days when you feel rubbish, when you don’t like yourself very much. It’s normal to have days like that, not everyone can be happy all the time.

Those days don’t take away how great you are. You not feeling amazing doesn’t make you any less amazing. And I’m here to tell you that YOU ARE AMAZING!

Whether you believe me or not, it’s true, so love yourself for it!

I hope this post has helped you to feel a bit more happy with who you are. Low self esteem can be a really awful thing to experience, and can have such a negative impact on your life. So if I have helped with that even a little bit then I feel I have done my job properly here.

Please remember to be kind to yourself. You are so important.

If you want to learn to love yourself more, why not check out my journal prompts for self love?