In 2020 I’m answering a list of 52 journal questions. Read about it here.
What do you love about yourself?
It’s funny how we don’t talk about what we love about ourselves. Really, this is what we should embrace, rather than focusing on our flaws. Yet we are more likely to talk about what we don’t like about ourselves than what we do like.
I will admit, I have no problems in answering this question. As I’ve got older, I’ve got much better at not worrying about what other people think (although I still have work to do on this). I’ve also come to realise how lucky I am to have the things I love about me as part of me.
So what do I love about myself…that I am a happy, bubbly, glass half full person. Being like this has helped so much throughout my life. It doesn’t matter how tough life gets, if you are naturally happy and positive you can get through anything.
What about you, what do you love about yourself?
April 24, 2020 at 9:30 pm
Omg the hostility I get around being a plus sized girl and being positive about my body and life is ASTOUNDING. It’s like people expect me to hate myself and my life. It’s ridiculous.
I had my students write about what makes them special a few weeks ago. We read a great book “Be You” and they had to find something about themselves that made them them haha it was awesome to see the responses!
April 25, 2020 at 7:19 am
Why do we focus so much on the negative? It’s like there is something wrong with us if we are self-positive, yet that’s what we should be encouraging!!
April 25, 2020 at 12:41 am
Agreed. If you are naturally positive (I am too), it helps you get through anything.
Nice!
Deb
April 25, 2020 at 7:19 am
Thanks, Deb. It’s amazing how a positive mindset helps so much.
April 25, 2020 at 3:14 am
I love this approach to life also. And I stay away from people who bring me down, who live a life of hyperbole and trauma. Just doesn’t work for me!
April 25, 2020 at 7:21 am
That’s a really good point, Jacqui. It’s amazing how much you can be influenced by others in your life.
April 25, 2020 at 6:13 am
It’s good to be able to say what you love about yourself.
When I was in the 3rd grade, we had a writing assignment, to write about what we were most proud of about ourselves. It was the only assignment I never did that year. (I was a stickler for doing all my work.) I just couldn’t. Funny how that’s what this question brought to mind.
April 25, 2020 at 7:21 am
Maybe your subconscious is telling you to finish that assignment, Liz 😉
April 25, 2020 at 7:35 am
I think society is just always looking for ways to improve and make us prettier and better so to be happy with what you have is taboo
April 25, 2020 at 7:38 am
Agree, GF
April 25, 2020 at 8:25 am
I’d say that not worrying about what anyone says is a positive trait(and one you will need once your books are published and reviewed! No matter how good they are).
April 25, 2020 at 9:05 am
Oddly enough, I worry more about some things than others. With my writing I’ve got pretty broad shoulders (so far anyway – I hope they hold when I do get published). I once had a judge (a published author) say about my manuscript in her contest comments that I should throw my manuscript in the bin because *insert long list of everything wrong* (the ms finalled in every other contest I entered it into after that so it wasn’t me who was wrong) and I coped.
April 27, 2020 at 8:44 am
That question just causes my brain to freeze up, haha!
One thing I love is that I am a good and thoughtful listener.
I’m glad you didn’t let the “throw it in the bin” comment derail your writing! Not everyone can or should judge a contest. Some people are really bad at it, and the results can be devastating.
April 27, 2020 at 8:57 am
Being a good listener is definitely something to value!