OKO: Loving Yourself Is Not Narcissistic

I have made some friends, and have many acquaintances, but the quantity of people I bring into my life is unimportant. If we wanted to be surrounded by people at a party, we could be. If we wanted a few choice people to come visit us in the hospital when we are sick, that is a much harder thing to ensure.

The only way to do that — the only way to single out the friends who should be in your life, and who love you for you — is to be yourself. Be kind, receptive, and compassionate, of course, but don’t do it while diluting your persona to please others.

Love yourself, ask yourself frankly what your strengths and weaknesses are, and work on them because you want to feel better in your own skin, not because you want to impress someone at a cocktail party. Loving yourself, and wanting to be happy with yourself, is not narcissistic at all, it’s the f everyundamental activity we must engage in if we want to form fulfilling relationships with the people who are right for us.

While everyone should absolutely try their best to be kind and thoughtful when meeting someone new it should not be a tightrope walk of trying to be less who you are for more of what you assume the other person wonts. The only person that can do you is you.....so keep doing the authentic you cos you are the best at it.

Shalom.

Nnamdi Chukwuka MBPS

Founder of OKO (Odika Odi ) NGO.

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