Can you love yourself?

I recently removed all the hair from my head – leaving me quite bare on the top. This is just something I just decided to do – I love doing different and spontaneous things. It felt pretty awesome. However when my friends and family saw what I had done – the comments ranged from one of shock, to disgust, to “oh God what have you done” to one comment that led me to write this little blog post – “Can you honestly tell me you can look into the mirror and say you love yourself?”

My answer to that question was an immediate YES. Why would I not be able to love myself? The place from which this question was asked is the place most people in the world are. They love themselves only when they look and feel a certain way, and they love themselves only when they get the approval of other people. When you love yourself this way – you never ever experience the real essence of love. You experience what is called pseudo love.

 

Anytime you open your heart to love and gratitude – you immediately open the door to infinite possibilities. You open the doorway to heaven where are riches can be yours. Love yourself with or without hair on your head, Love yourself with or without money, love yourself with or without a job, love yourself with or without a partner, love yourself for having a big bum or having a funny looking nose, love yourself for who you are right here, right now and let go of caring about what people think or say. Each day, none of those people face the challenges you face for you, and none of them walk the path you walk for you.

 

Appreciate and value you for being as awesome as you are, because who you are is the best that you can be today – and when tomorrow comes you can do your best to be better than you were yesterday. That is all that is asked of you.

 

Go on and love yourself – no matter what.

I love you – Hitesh