You Don’t Know a Thing About Self-Love; You Don’t Even Know Your-SELF

I have been using social media like a spy (always searching for more) for the past two years. During this time, I have seen the growing popularity of “self-love” and the more definitions I read on self-love, the lesser I became interested in even thinking about self-love.

Self-love has become more like self-pity.

If that wasn’t enough, giant companies and clever marketers took advantage of this growing popularity of self-love to sell cute shampoo bottles, expensive perfumes, and things like that. While I will never understand how self-love became about decorating yourself from head to toe, I want to share what self-love really means. A definition that is less accepted and discussed.

So are we ready?

As clear cut as possible, self-love is about two things:

1. Knowing thyself: What you think, how you think, what is your true nature, what is hidden behind all the manners and etiquettes, what is your personality and the like
2. Accepting yourself: Acknowledging everything that is inside you and accepting it, be it good or bad. Most people hide their ugly side somewhere deep inside them so that no one can know their dark side. However, what you don’t realize is that the deeper you hide, the darker it gets…