Sep 21, 2009

Love Thyself. :)

The bestest thing about being me is that I am unique.
No other me in the whole goddam world.
Know how beautiful it feels? :)
To be me?

I love being myself, with all the flaws and goodness in me.
Once, I remember telling a friend of mine when asked how I could love people so much, "You love yourself first. Then you start seeing yourself in others. And then you love others as much."

Corollary, "If you can't love yourself, you cant love others." [Same as what Jesus advised. 'Love others as you love yourself.']
And trust me, when I love the way I am, it is easier for me to love others. Including their imperfections.

And anyways, it is their imperfections that complete them. :)
Take care guys..
It feels awesome to be me. :) Dont you too?
Cheerz!
A happy Durga :)

12 comments:

rimz said...

yeahh...i agree wid u totally... d one who cnt love him/herslf cant love others....
i liked "I love being myself, with all the flaws and goodness in me."~~ dis line d most....

"main apni favourite hoon..."_JWM

HAPPY DURGA PUJA TO YOU TOO....:)
tk cre..N'joy...:)

Anonymous said...

Imperfection is what gives meaning to Perfection. More an imperfection, more beautiful and complete is the Perfection :)

Acceptance takes Strength for all its shine and dent. And love keeps cascading after that. Self love or selfless love, it knows no boundaries.

Just dissolving in it like a sugar-cube inside the hot milk, the feeling encompasses all and knows no seperate identity.

You are Truly Unique, good insight :)

Anonymous said...

nice thought
but u didn't my question here??
http://myrandomthotzz.blogspot.com/2009/09/life-is-box-of-chocolates.html

Surya (RADHAKRISHNAN G) said...

Pranam Madam,

Yes... This is what we should know..
'love yourself/love myself' true, but for that we should know ourself no...

Love the imperfect-that will prevail-and will complete them-thats great!

Imperfections are the past and future of the perfections... hihihi...

Be me and be me...
Recently I concluded a mail with'be with yourself'-Next day I paid dearly for writing 'mind yourself'-(?)hihihiiii..

Already you are a subjective thinker!
keep it up!

Durga Nandan said...

@ rimz : That JWM quote is my fav.. ;) Had been walking around with that on my lips for quite a long time.. :D

Happy Durga Pooja.. :)
Take care..
Cheerz!
:)

Durga Nandan said...

@ Surya Kannan : Rightly said. You knw, I have not seen much of selfless love around. Everyone who loves, loves for a reason.

The dissolving of sugar cube analogy, is awesome.. Never thought of such a thing when I have tea.. ;)
Cheerz!
Glad to see it provoked you to think a lot.. :)
Durga

Durga Nandan said...

@ RSV : Sorry dear, I had seen the question but thought I would answer that the next time I log in, which I forgot the next time I logged in.. :)
Will do it now. :)
DN

Durga Nandan said...

@ Surya : Thanks a lot.. :)
Cheerz!
DN

Amit Kumar Singh said...

Nice post.... :)
What I feel, unless one accept one's uniqueness, one's imperfection and perfection, one can not love oneself. The conflict arise at the very moment when we reject ourselves and try to be others.
So be in love is just a consequence of acceptance.....
One cannot say a selfish person that he is in love of himself. Why? because his selfishness reflects that he has not accepted himself in totality...he is lacking something..

Cheers!!

Durga Nandan said...

@ Amit : Yeah, self love and selfishness are different.
I would say, narcissism and self love are different too.
Narcissism is being obsessed with self. Whereas self love is loving oneself. :)
The 'lacking something part', I had not thought about that till now.. :)
Cheerz! And thanks.. :)
Durga

BK Chowla, said...

You must know that the persons of such attitude are very confident of themselves and are proud of whatever they possess.They never grumble.Are you like that?

Durga Nandan said...

@ Chowlaji : I grumble about lots of stuffs.
But those are never about me. But about the situations I am in and how I find it difficult to overcome them.
I grumble if I find life is not good.

Well, I have accepted myself with all my negatives and positives. Though I cant seem to accept the negatives of life. :D
Cheerz!
DN