littlestar

this was a realization i had when i was walking home from class yesterday and i thought it was important enough to merit it's own entry:

if people genuinely, truly loved themselves than they would never have to hate anything or anyone (except maybe raw onions. i hate raw onions.)

when you think about it, if someone was truly happy and satisfied with themselves, they would not feel shame. they would not feel that they have to live up to some expectation. they would not feel the need to validate their lives and their decisions by imposing them on others. they wouldn't need to declare that other people were bad (usually in comparison to themselves) so that they could feel good. if you truly loved yourself, you wouldn't need self-destructive behaviors to make life easier for you to bear.

in an ideal world, we could all live together happily, knowing the true value of ourselves and recognizing the unique elements of others.

this ideal world is worth dying for (or at least facing a whole lot of opposition for).

and i think that's what god does. maybe that's why so many are drawn to him, in whatever form they think he exists in.

but those moments when that ideal world coexists in this world for a short, brief, barely-there moment in time... isn't it one of the most beautiful sights in the world?

if we loved ourselves, we could truly be ourselves...without putting up facades to hide our insecurities and fears. this would allow us the freedom to love others.

sometimes, it is the other way around. if you can love others the way that jesus loves, truly and whole-heartedly... then you can learn to love yourself truly and wholeheartedly. after all, jesus loves you that way, right?