Per Davidji’s challenge, my theme for July is Self-Love. Since I am a true child of Cancer, it is a good month for me to work on self-love. Oscar Wilde commented: “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Three keys to Self-Love are to nourish:
Self Kindness
Self Compassion
Self-care
My commitment is that I wish to love myself more, knowing self-love is never selfish, it’s what I need to fill my cup back up so I can share that ripple of LOVE with others. I wish myself KINDNESS, be kind to myself, both in how I think and how I talk. I will take care of me and have fun. I will, take the time to sit, laugh out loud, laugh at myself and do something I love each and every day. I will fill my heart and soul with joy, laughter, exhilaration, and connection. Finally, I wish myself PEACE, peace of mind, peace of speech, and peace of heart.
The White Rabbit in the book “Alice in Wonderland”, summaries this theme:
Do you love Me? Alice asked.
No, I don’t love you! replied the White Rabbit.
Alice frowned and clasped her hands together as she did whenever she felt hurt.
See? replied the White Rabbit.
Now you’re going to start asking yourself what makes you so imperfect and what did you do wrong so that I can’t love you at least a little.
You know, that’s why I can’t love you.
You will not always be loved Alice, there will be days when others will be tired and bored with life, will have their heads in the clouds, and will hurt you.
Because people are like that, they somehow always end up hurting each other’s feelings, whether through carelessness, misunderstanding, or conflicts with themselves.
If you don’t love yourself, at least a little, if you don’t create an armor of self-love and happiness around your heart, the feeble annoyances caused by others will become lethal and will destroy you.
The first time I saw you I made a pact with myself: “I will avoid loving you until you learn to love yourself.”
– Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland
