Reasons I like myself

Reasons I like myself
I like myself because I have chosen to be honest even when I think I will end up getting hurt.

I like myself because I am allowing myself to feel the things that I was once always afraid and ashamed to feel like anger and sadness.

I like myself because I'm starting to believe I can change.

I like myself because I have found that no matter what I do someone always loves me.

Jesse
 
I try to create, rather than destroy (I have one of the smallest gardens on the planet, but it has colour all year round).

I try to encourage others to learn new skills even though they doubt their ability to learn (It is always appreciated eventually).

If others identify weakness within themselves, I try to identify strength.

I have swung the sword of justice, even though it cut me to do so!

I will only accept so much **** now before I throw it back - at one time I just took it!

I can appreciate the beauty in nature all around me - one of the jewels I have retained from early childhood.

I do not give up even though soemtimes it would seem easier to do so.

Best wishes ...Rik
 
this is my first post, too. I haven't looked at the reasons i don't like myself thread, yet, but i will. I will because i understand the feeling, and i struggle with it. When I was a kid, only a year or two after my own abuse, i was in a creative writing class where the teacher required us to keep a journal. in the times when I could not think of topics i would do lists of "the good things" and "the bad things." the "good things" list always ended up longer. that's a tangent. give me time to learn.

i like that i am in a profession where i get to save some of the most remarkable places on the planet,

i like that i have lasting friendships, even though the distance is painful

i like that i haven't quit.

i like that i'm 17 years younger than roadrunner, but probably not as attractive...

i especially like that i can read this stuff and laugh a little bit. it's the levity of life that seems to be missing around the issues around sexual abuse. i dunno. maybe because sex is one of the true joys of life, but it's delicate, and abuse throws off that balance.
 
I have survived what maybe someone else could not. I have grown to person who try to hold to honor and character of what I do and choices I make. I have become more then what is been expected of me, in spite everything else. I was good father. I will again some day be good parent. I am good enough at what I do. I am someone who more is kind than not.

VN
 
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