My New Year's Resolution is to Learn to like Myself
Do You like Yourself? Really?
I would like to propose to myself that starting January 1, 2009, I will start liking myself. Now, that I have a resolution made and want it to be done right, I have to start planning ways to show to myself that I like myself. It's easy to say that you like yourself, but, what, do you do to show it as much as you do for someone else you have expressed that emotion for? That is how we will start with liking ourself. We will treat ourselves as we treat those other things and people that we like and who know that we like them.
We will not allow those who use our premises, our ideas, our groceries, our good nature to behave condescending to us as if we were deprived of our rights by allowing them to use theirs.
As a matter of policy, we will expect full compensation for our services and will immediately cease offering those when we are feeling used or put upon.
It just might happen that we need to look at our clothes and begin to give away , not to charities like Salvation Armies, clothes that we have had in our closets for more than five years and buy new clothes that make us like ourselves almost as much as the needy people we have bought for and who expect it as their right.
Health is more than just a gift it is our obligation to mainstain a healthy lifestyle and if that means finding a friend who can show us the same sympathy and care that we have shown those that we have liked in our lives, we will make that a priority to find someone to be a helpful friend. We will immediately cut off from our presence any and all people or things who look at us as undressed Santa Claus's.
Liking ourself, as myself, for myself, I will only do and say and think what is most comforting to myself.
We will not allow those who use our premises, our ideas, our groceries, our good nature to behave condescending to us as if we were deprived of our rights by allowing them to use theirs.
As a matter of policy, we will expect full compensation for our services and will immediately cease offering those when we are feeling used or put upon.
It just might happen that we need to look at our clothes and begin to give away , not to charities like Salvation Armies, clothes that we have had in our closets for more than five years and buy new clothes that make us like ourselves almost as much as the needy people we have bought for and who expect it as their right.
Health is more than just a gift it is our obligation to mainstain a healthy lifestyle and if that means finding a friend who can show us the same sympathy and care that we have shown those that we have liked in our lives, we will make that a priority to find someone to be a helpful friend. We will immediately cut off from our presence any and all people or things who look at us as undressed Santa Claus's.
Liking ourself, as myself, for myself, I will only do and say and think what is most comforting to myself.
And, finally, I will thank the New Year by being myself, for myself, and be proud of myself. Happy New Year
It doesn't require the need for money to be spent or to injure another person to make your resolution come true. It is learning to become what you had always hoped you would before you got sidetracked by life's necessities. Therefore, this resolution is mostly for those of us over fifty.
Published by Nora Nick
thirty year English teacher turned mental health therapist and now retired writer. View profile
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Post a CommentGreat resolution, one I could apply to my own life!
Oops! I went off track. Your article was about liking yourself. Sorry.
Good article. Often a poor self image develops during childhood. Writing is a great way to improve one's self image because once the article is written, there is that special sense of accomplishment.