Recycle of Routines
I read a quote a while ago that required me to self-reflect: "if you call yourself self-aware but you are only aware of your faults and never acknowledge your strengths you are not self-aware. you have repackaged your self-hatred." Well, maybe, self-hatred is an awful word for it. Perhaps, it is better described as poor self-image. No matter how hard I tried to mask everything by exemplifying the epitome of body positivity (or at least neutrality) through praises and coos (or beratement if the message cannot go through) to other women when they complain about their own perception of their body, I still have this deep-rooted issue of my own self image. The perceptions that I have of myself have been so long instilled in me that it is quite difficult to remove myself from those ideas. It is kind of ironic being this self-aware. Being aware enough of both the self-limiting beliefs that we have set upon ourselves, while also knowing those beliefs are never necessarily true. The ...