An art of living.
What people think about us says more about them than about you.
People will look at us according to their fears, according to their envy, according to their wounds. Some will admire us in silence, others will hate us for no reason, but neither one nor the other defines who you are, or who we are.
If someone perceives us as a threat, they will call us arrogant. If he sees us as unattainable, he will say that we are as cold as the iceberg. If our freedom hurts them, they might even label us as rebels. But none of that is our truth, it is only the reflection of what those who criticize and point out to us carry inside.
Look, self-esteem is a journey, not a destination. However, we often feel that we are not enough to exercise the fact of being ourselves. And we live life behind the scenes, running away even from our own reflection. Has it happened to them? Me too. 😬
A long time ago my self-esteem was really nothing and I had a lot of personal problems linked to my lack of self-love.
Until I went to the psychologist and understood and assumed my place in the world.
It is a despair when you are in the labyrinth and you do not find the way, but sometimes you do not see the signs around that give you the guide to get out, both inside and outside yourself.
Today I thank God, for going through there because I think I understood things that I thought would never happen to me before.
It's too divine to see yourself in the mirror and always feel spectacular 🫣☺️ and besides that to know that the person who makes you doubt yourself is the one who has bad self-esteem, is my opinion.
They know that it is difficult to review oneself and realize that one often does the opposite of what one professes.
Because our unconscious evil suddenly comes out to teach us that we are not in control of anything. How difficult is that.
That's why, from my own experience, I am aware that low self-esteem, although it may seem like a labyrinth, with the right tools, we really do have a way out, without the need to stay stuck, being spectators of our life!
Life is lived with everything, even when someone affects us emotionally and we respond in an exaggerated way against him, most likely we are casting our shadow.
Why?
Because the projection of our darkness is an unconscious mechanism in which we attribute our own guilt, meanness and evil, and then we perceive, that is, we add to it absolutely everything negative that comes from outside.
Sometimes what we have not integrated from our shadow is the beautiful, our virtues, all the potential that is in shadow, for example these beautiful orchids in my garden that sparkle beauty even on very dark nights in my city, because of the lack of electricity (light) for hours every day💡.
Janitze 🌹
Separator made with Canva by @janitzearratia
Any images in this post are taken with my iPhone 12, the Infinix pro-note 30 or with the camera eighties Rolleiflex 2.8 f, and edited by me with Canva
Translation with |DeepL