Do you know yourself?
The answer’s probably ‘yes’.
Because, come on, who doesn’t know themselves?
We all know every deepest secret, every desire, every wish, every fear of ourselves, when nobody else knows about them. We are the ones who’ve lived our lives, walked in our shoes all day, we are the ones who are familiar with every single thread of our essence.
But in the daily routine of our habitual lives, we often don’t get that time to ourselves where we just sit down and close our eyes and think about ourselves. For some time, we take our minds off the tensions and worries, the future plans and the past regrets.
We just focus on ourselves—what we were and who we’ve become. And then sometimes we find sharp contrasts between the two people—our past selves and our present selves.
We couldn’t have noticed it otherwise, but now we do.
When we sit and think about ourselves, we come up with things we probably wouldn’t have ever thought about, but now when we see it—we do realize how many secrets there were that we’d kept—hidden from even our own selves.
This helps.
Randomly realizing that you were so busy today running around and all that you didn’t take care of yourself at all. Whenever this realization strikes, do something about it.
Tell yourself that the first person who cares about you is you yourself.
The first person who should fall in love with you is you yourself.
Give time to yourself.
If you don’t love yourself, who will?
If all the people in the world have this mentality, then probably the levels of depression in people and all the suicide rates would come down a bit. It sometimes seems hard, but then, what doesn’t?
All we have to do is get to know ourselves. Not just things about us that we are told to believe, or things others know about us. We have to befriend ourselves.
Not that crazy type, where people talk to themselves our loud and all, getting weird glances and negative popularity, but that kind where you lie down on your bed at night and just go through the hard day. And then you appreciate yourself for going through with it.
This is what you should do.
The world might believe in soulmates and all, but I believe in roommates first.
Your mind, your soul. Roommates in one beautiful body.
Cherish it.
And it’s nice to have friends you hang out with, and loads of people you talk with whenever you feel lonely, but it’s really important that, every once in a while, you have a chat with yourself too.
