Unworthy

Not my words, but words I recognize as true

Stop telling people that no one will love them until they love themselves.  Stop planting the idea in people's brains that they are unworthy of love because of their own struggle.

Author's Note

Not my words, but when I read them, I immediately recognized the real and honest truth.

Reviews

[Samuel Dickens]

While I would never put it to someone in that way, I do believe that loving one's self is important and quite useful. If we walk around feeling like we're dirt, it will show. (Especially when hoping to find romance.) I'm no kind of expert, of course, just an introvert who suffered many years of low self-esteem.

[Carol Cashes]

So many wonderful souls, such as yours, suffered damage as children, and seem to be the ones who have to work the hardest to accept and acknowledge their worth. I'm grateful for my uneventful and normal childhood as it made it easier for me to resist adopting others' bad opinions of me. My struggles have been primarily my disappointment in others that I wanted to trust or turn to.

[Effector Prime]

Aye I can relate. Normal childhood, abnormal lessons... (sometimes subnormal) even uber normal

[Carol Cashes]

You are making me laugh...and I sure needed to today. How many prefixes are there for "normal"?

[Effector Prime]

quite some I believe... What with all our incarnations... you're cute

[Carol Cashes]

*snort* It's a new beauty regimen I like to call candlelight!

[Effector Prime]

Hahahaha! The snort gets me clean. Good on ya'

[Mirror]

Ugh!!!! And you look handsome!!! I wish i was there to tell you I am in love with you in those years of low esteem. I wouldn't have told you because I wanted you to know, but because it is... you are.

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Important and I SO agree! Love should not come with conditions. If it has conditions, it is not true love.

[Carol Cashes]

I think a lot of people get confused with "unconditional" and "acceptable behavior", eh?

[Lorry]

And those that say It, seem to never have heard the phrase too many cooks. So many experts on love, yet so little evidence to back them up. Will we ever learn? :)

[Carol Cashes]

Too many cooks, indeed. Good point. We each have to find our own way, it's just a shame that some paths are fraught with so many obstacles....

[AcasualPawn]

True words but

Well iam self obsessed.......
And i dont care what people thought, talk and do.........

[Carol Cashes]

I don't buy into others' opinions of me, either. I know what I am, who I am, and I'm always aware of my own motives, whether I tell another or not. But many have been damaged from childhood, making true self awareness more difficult....

[AcasualPawn]

Well bad for them...... (no pity in my eyes).. World is cruel......

[barleygirl]

I agree with this so much. Being abused as a child, it took decades for me to love myself. Can you imagine if nobody loved me thru my healing struggle? This could be made into a poem . . .

[Carol Cashes]

I had a good childhood, it was when I became an adult, on my own, that I encountered destructive and harmful personalities. I didn't "buy" into it, my emotional struggles were primarily disappointment in others...
I agree, this could be worked up into quite the thought provoking piece. Say....by a real poet such as yourself? Eh?