LOVING LIFE
Today, I had a fabulous realization that manifested in the form of a thought - ”Love life by Living it, and Live life by Loving it!” I instantly shared it as a facebook status. However, I realized there’s much more to this line than just being a facebook status. So what exactly does loving one’s life mean? And how exactly does loving one’s life count as have having lived it and not any other way? This can be explained by understanding the two main pillars that comprise that quote . Love - Love starts with my own self. If I can’t love myself, I can’t love anyone else. When a person can’t love his own self the way he is, there’s no way he can love others the way they are. Loving one’s self is not about staring the mirror all day in self-praise; that’s vanity. Loving the self is about knowing your good and bad; its about accepting your flaws and striving to become a better person; its about sticking to the values that one holds no matter what. From acceptance comes love