I am so beautiful

Love others, as you love yourself- goes a famous saying. The emphasis of this saying lies in the first half. But, what about the second half? Do we love ourselves? Is the answer a thumping YES?

By loving ourselves, I don't mean being egoist, egotist or bragging about oneself. All these are not love in first place. I mean acceptance- accepting ourselves as we are and finding beauty in it. Whatever exists is God's creation, then how can anything be ugly or bland? It has to be beautiful. So we must be beautiful.

We don't like our eyes, our nose, our hair, the way we look, our nature, our decisions, our bank balance, our mistakes, our education, our town, our non-acceptance by others... I am sure you will agree with me that this list is without end. But why shouldn't we step a couple of steps back and see them in new light... we will find beauty in all of these. There are no templates to which our attributes should adhere to be called "beautiful". You need not come out with any list of items to prove that you are beautiful, you are beautiful and that's it.

Once we have accepted ourselves, we can be more confident, more loving, more forgiving and more "ourselves". We will bring more of ourselves in all that we do or don't. Life seems blessed.