You Will Bloom

I know you think that if you criticise yourself enough — if you pick apart your body and loathe all your flaws and find all the reasons you aren’t good enough, it will motivate you to take action so that sometime in the foggy distant future you might be able to love yourself.
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But it won’t.
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Hating who you are now won’t lead you to loving the person you are becoming. Planting seeds of self-hate will never grow into love — just like planting a weed will never grow into a sweet mango tree.
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The only path to self-love is to practise it — to plant seeds of love in every thought, every word, every action, every time you wake up in the morning, every time you look in the mirror, every time you stumble, every time you get up again.
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And then to nurture those seeds, to nourish them with gentleness and compassion and kindness.
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And slowly, softly, almost without noticing, love will bloom. You will bloom.
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