Imagine that you were in charge of the care of a three month old baby. At feeding time, would you feed the baby with no strings attached? Of course you would! You won't say, "Okay kid! Unless you can do something smart and witty; unless you can sit up and say your ABC or make me laugh, you don't get a drink!" You feed the baby because it deserves to be fed. It deserves love, care and fair treatment. It deserves all that because, like you, it is a human being, a part of the Universe.
You deserve exactly the same. You deserved it when you were born and you deserve it now. Too many people get the idea that unless they are as clever or as smart or as handsome or as highly paid or as sporty or as witty as other people they know, they are undeserving of love and respect.
You deserve love and respect just because you are you.
Too rarely do most of us focus on our real inner beauty and our inner strengths. Do you recall watching 'boy meets girl' movies? As the boy and girl struggled through thick and thin, you hoped and prayed the who time that everything would work out. He went to war, she left home, he came back, she was gone, he found her, her brother told him to get lost, she told him to get lost, and all the time you hoped that they would live happily after. They were married and strolled off into the sunset as the curtain came down. You dried your tears and clutching your empty popcorn bucket, strolled out of the theater.
We cry at these movies because at our deepest level, we care. We love. We hurt. There is that inner core in all of us which is simply beautiful. Depending on how much we have been hurt, we will expose our deepest feelings, but we all share these qualities.
When we see the news stories which portray the plight of the starving around the globe, we all ache inside for them. Each of us may have a different view as to how they can best be helped, but we all care. That is the way we are.
Accept that you have these qualities - the capacity to love and empathize and be human. Recognize your own worth and constantly remind yourself that you need to be treated well.
( extract from Andrew Mathews' Being Happy)
You deserve exactly the same. You deserved it when you were born and you deserve it now. Too many people get the idea that unless they are as clever or as smart or as handsome or as highly paid or as sporty or as witty as other people they know, they are undeserving of love and respect.
You deserve love and respect just because you are you.
Too rarely do most of us focus on our real inner beauty and our inner strengths. Do you recall watching 'boy meets girl' movies? As the boy and girl struggled through thick and thin, you hoped and prayed the who time that everything would work out. He went to war, she left home, he came back, she was gone, he found her, her brother told him to get lost, she told him to get lost, and all the time you hoped that they would live happily after. They were married and strolled off into the sunset as the curtain came down. You dried your tears and clutching your empty popcorn bucket, strolled out of the theater.
We cry at these movies because at our deepest level, we care. We love. We hurt. There is that inner core in all of us which is simply beautiful. Depending on how much we have been hurt, we will expose our deepest feelings, but we all share these qualities.
When we see the news stories which portray the plight of the starving around the globe, we all ache inside for them. Each of us may have a different view as to how they can best be helped, but we all care. That is the way we are.
Accept that you have these qualities - the capacity to love and empathize and be human. Recognize your own worth and constantly remind yourself that you need to be treated well.
( extract from Andrew Mathews' Being Happy)
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2 comments:
Beautiful!
@ Anu - Thanks - waiting to read your posts....long time no write :(
C
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