Usually I talk about relationships and marriage but I felt that this topic is also important if you every want to be in a good and healthy relationship, because before you can love someone else you need to know how to love yourself.
The first person you should love is yourself. I know that sounds strange, but unfortunately there are many people in this world that do not love themselves. You will know them just from having a brief conversation with them. Most of them are always negative, mad, angry, upset, and just plain miserable. One of the best quotes that I have heard to describe these type of people is "hurt people hurt people", meaning that they have been hurt or abused in some type of way and they take it out on others by trying to hurt them with words or physically. Most of the time they have been hurt by someone they loved and who was suppose to show them love and support, many times it is their parent or a significant other.
Then there are people who don't love themselves because they have body image issues. Basically they hate the way they look. Often times they will become jealous and envious of people who they think has the perfect body or face because they wish that they were them. If you learn to love the skin that you are in then there will be no need to be envious of others.
When you learn to love yourself you will have peace, happiness, joy, and will look forward to what each day will bring. Loving yourself also helps you make better decisions in your life, because you will be more cautious and will not do things or bring people into your life that will hurt you.
One of the first steps to learning to love yourself is to think more positive about you. All of us have something good about us, so find what that is and start from there. Secondly have a better attitude, because your attitude is everything. It effects your mood and how your day will start and possibly end. Lastly, know that even if you don't feel loved by anyone around you that God does love you and wants you to be happy, prosperous, and loved.
Every thing that you said is so true. Too often people constantly rush into relationships because they would rather have a bad one instead of not having one at all. I truly believe that God allows that time for people to get to know themselves and their worth
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