"You demonstrate love by giving it unconditionally to yourself. And as you do, you attract others into your life who are able to love you without conditions" 
Paul Ferrini 

I love me, I remind myself everyday. I have taught myself how to genuinely love me in spite of all my imperfections. I love everything about myself. I was stitched perfectly and created with purpose, divine purpose that only continues to linger out and manifest everyday that I breathe. One thing about loving yourself unconditionally is that no one can ever take that self love away from you. When you truly love you first, without any limitations you begin to realize how powerful loving you really is. As devastating as it is, there are many people who don't know how to love themselves. Ha, those same people reach out to other confused souls and anticipate genuine love to help them find self love. Well, that is not exactly how it works. Which is why so many troubled relationships that were started on a lie, ultimately end with the truth exposed leaving everything out in the open. No matter how hard you try to hide the flaw of insecurity and lack of self love, with anyone you get involved with those flaws begin to reveal unexpectedly, and now someone knows who you really are. No matter who that someone is, a friend or a significant other they have been exposed.  People tend to shy away from people that they perceive to have too many issues. Truth is, we all have issues but some people know how to deal with them better than others.  Oh yea, so you think you can wash your hands from the filth and keep living a lie and bring your insecure habits into another situation, and you continue the trend until it gets old, or until you're all alone. Sorry to burst the bubble, wherever you go, those same problems go with you until you master the art of dealing with them. One thing that kills me is that people try cover up their issues more than they lay them out on the table. Why is that? Because life is so much easier when no one knows the "REAL YOU" and all your blemishes and bruises are covered up. Learning how to unmask those when the time is right will dismiss so many issues in your life.  The thing is, no one can love you if you don't love yourself enough to be willing to unmask the things that make you uniquely you. No matter how terrible you think your life is, you have to be mindful that someone else out there is going through a much worse situation than you. I remind myself of that daily. Sometimes we get so caught up in ourselves and we begin to exaggerate our flaws and failures and ascribe defects to our lives that often times don't exist. I have found throughout my young life that when you reveal the truth to the right people they linger to you. Once you develop those people in your life, putting on a face full of make up is the wrong thing to do. As hard as it may be to reveal those things, the better you feel when you do. Once you truly realize that you can't change who you are and God made no mistakes when creating you it is easier to accept . You begin to realize that self love is more important than anything else. Have you ever been around someone who was just so confident in themselves and they are so accepting of their flaws and failures. Wow! Those individuals inspire me, I am sure they inspire you as well in some way or another. Truth is, we all have flaws and we have all failed countless times. Embracing and loving the unchangeable things about yourself will only force other to love and accept you for you. If they don't, then so be it. Life still goes on honey. With acceptance we begin to strengthen our character and improve our emotional maturity.You cannot continue to struggle against loving and revealing the real you and simmer with negativity and low self-esteem it is weighing you and others around you down more than you know. Indeed, I challenge you to do something out of the ordinary and just experience what it feels like to feel peace and contentment over your life. I promise you wont regret it.

Continue to stay blessed, I'm praying for you.

"Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves." - Nathaniel Branden