Like Yourself

[savage_beagle]

The only way you can successfully communicate and relate to other people, is to like yourself. The more you like yourself, the more others will like and accept you. Unfortunately, many people have experiences in their past that leave them feeling unworthy, incapable and embarrassed.
That is all over now. It is in the past. The reality is that you're an expressive, sensitive, gregarious person, if only you'll let yourself be. It doesn't matter what someone has said about you in the past. It doesn't matter what shortcomings you have previously experienced. That is all history.

What matters is what you do from this point forward. Realize that you are a worthwhile, valuable person with an enormous contribution to make. Find the best within yourself and feel good about the person you are. You are a special person, and your life begins today.

-- Ralph Marston

 

[BrokenSmile]

You are a special person, and your life begins today.

I like to think like that.

 

[Y]

If i were someone else, and i had met me, i wouldnt like myself, thats the way i think, cos i hate how i look on the outside, not just the looks, i hate the way i talk and my voice, the way i move and everything about me... I try to be objective and watch myself on video, and try to see it as someone else, and i DO hate that someone else...

Well i cant love myself just cos i had to, cos the inner me hates outer me (my social face), sorry about the poor english

 

[dzerklis]

The only way you can successfully communicate and relate to other people, is to like yourself.

i wish it was truth, because i like myslf very much.

 

[savage_beagle]

just stop making exscuses and start living.

IT IS THE TRUTH. Even today, i put that theory into practice, as i was all over my city (with a good friend) and i let myself be humble and kind. I easily started up conversation with a woman with a puppy on the leash. I look for an ''icebreaker''...something that i can use to start a friendly conversation. We were in a long line-up of cars and people that just missed a ferry boat ride to an island, and we were told the next sailing wasnt for another 2 hours. So i hopped out of my car..smiled at the woman in front of us with her 3 month old puppy....and since we both knew we had to wait 2 more hours..i said..''hi! ..since we gonna have to wait 2 more hours..how about i just walk your puppy around the block for 2 hours!?!?''---she laughed..i played with a puppy and we just made nice small talk. When you approach someone..anyone (strangers included), and you make eye contact,smile and say ''helloo..how are you???''...they see you are not a threat..and they respond in kind. You see..everyone wants a friendly genuine smiling face to greet them and show interest in them. Come across as confident-friendly-sincere...show interest in the person...they return the same. I used to be a moody grumpy fucker, but when i looked up and smiled, made eye contact and was the first to say a friendly greeting....you would not believe how people responded in kind. If the way you approach people,places, events, etc, was not as successful as you wanted it to be, then for petes sake, change your approach...keep working on it till you get it just right....there is no point saying ''oh..but it never worked good for me in the past..boo hoo hoooooo!!''.....You go back and try it again..and again...like anything in life that you need to practice before you perfect...keep trying and never give up on yourself. Bottom line is this...stop making exscuses and start taking care of business...that business being your own LIFE.