As July comes to a close, I look back on my month of “Self-Love” “Self-Compassion” and Self-Care and realize that the foundation of all is kindness…”Self Kindness”. Can I treat myself with the same kindness I treat those around me? I go back where I began and quote Alice in Wonderland:
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.”
I also found this Virginia Woolf quote which is gives me the road map:
Whatever happens, stay alive.
Don’t die before you’re dead.
Don’t lose yourself, don’t lose hope, don’t lose direction. Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin.
Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design.
Stay alive, stay alive inside you, stay alive also outside, fill yourself with colors of the world, fill yourself with peace, fill yourself with hope.
Stay alive with joy.
There is only one thing you should not waste in life,
and that’s life itself ~ Virginia Woolf
