Loving yourself is a rather good idea.

It’s your longest relationship.

You might as well enjoy it. 

Given that you are “fearfully and wonderfully made” what’s NOT to love? You are a highly complex and powerful person, capable of so much. 

Besides, rejecting yourself is draining, tiresome work, naturally flows into rejecting others. 

Love all-round rejuvenates all-round.

Loving yourself gives others a fighting chance to love you. Someone has to lead the way. Besides, if you don’t love who you are, how can you possibly expect others to? Loving yourself makes you easier to be with, it’s more fun to be around a self-assured, self-aware person. 

Loving yourself makes you safe. Self-loathing people are short fused, quickly triggered, lash-out kind of people.

One benefit of loving yourself is being able to see others more clearly, especially your immediate and extended family. Your family traits, urges, passions, will become clearer to you, easier to accept and embrace them, rather than resist. Self-love helps you to see how terrifically beautiful all other people really are. 

Self-love transforms your every perception and how you treat everyone and everything. 

Inner conditions are contagious. 

Others reap the benefits or feel the sting of what’s going on inside you.  

Loving yourself is a prerequisite for loving anyone and anything.

My siblings and I enjoyed each other and a local park….. just prior to my son’s wedding