# Self Love 2024-11-22 22:33 My understanding of self love is evolving. At an early age I learned about narcissism and realized how it manifested in a person and bred like a parasite. Since then I have been hyper vigilant about self love, subconsciously developing the idea that self love would breed vanity and should be checked. A friend of mine told me recently how narcissists do not have an abundance of self love, but are deprived of it. This made it click for me: by being afraid of becoming like a narcissist who had damaged my life, I was destroying myself and travelling down the same road I desperately wanted to avoid. I have started to love the things about myself which I find unique. And it’s odd that I feel kinder and more empathetic to other people as a result. It must be true then that the outer world is a reflection of your inner world. Love yourself. Love people.