I guess one of the greatest needs of most people, is the need to be loved, yes, loved, loved by our families, friends, our loved ones, our spouses or partners, employers and colleagues, all of us want to experience the feeling of love in most areas of our lives, we tend to belief that being loved by others, gives us some form of general acceptance by the outer world.

The problem is, with everyone looking for love outside or away from our very own self, we don’t take time to find out how to love and accept ourselves for who we truly are, which ultimately gives birth to us not being capable of knowing how
to love others without reservation, and at worst, making it almost impossible to discover our true purpose and potential in life because we don’t know how to love ourselves first.

The fact that we all like to put up appearances, from time to time, of how we are good people, generous, kind hearted, purpose driven, God fearing, charming and don’t have a care in the world, means we find ourselves constantly concealing the truth of the most ugly and shameful traits we don’t want the world to see in the vault of our hearts and minds, and failing to understand that if we continue to conceal these ugly paths of our lives, its highly impossible to change our future or make it any better than our past.

Just in case we choose to intentionally forget or take zero notice of it, the act of trying to keep up appearances, withdraws an enormous amount of creative energy from the economy of our body, and part of that withdrawal also includes taking along parts of our original personality and depriving our original self of its very own unique richness and vitality.

In short, it’s impossible to fulfil our full potential if we want to continue living what we are not, or copying other people’s lifestyles. In life, we possibly can only fulfil our true potential by knowing exactly who we are and embracing it, discovering that self-awareness of one, and nurturing it with the true self love it deserves, in order to restore its richness and vitality, then, and only then, will we thrive, be always confident and be fulfilled within ourselves like someone who’s just got a round of great sex.

To be able to live in that constant state of self-love that will enable us fulfil our true purpose and potentials, we need to pay attention to a few things, normally on the face of it, we probably think there’s nothing to it, being that most of us could easily say, we know who we are, and are living the life we want to live, but the truth is, if a buggy maker only thought as far ahead to the fact that they were in the transportation business or industry, they would end up becoming car manufacturers, and not merely settling and using all their resources and R& simply to manufacture buggies. Being able to self-examine who we are and having a core understanding of who we should be as individual is the first steps to fulfilling our purpose and destiny in life.

And, it’s not enough to say, I am a Doctor, Lawyer, Account, Civil Servant or whatever one’s job title is, that’s simply what you do, or in other words, to be mistaking our attributes for our essence, and to make the mistake of mixing up what we do, for who we are, means we don’t really have a clue who we are.

If all of that begins to make any sense to you, and you for a minute took a thought to think about “who you are” or “who am I” or what life have you been living all these years, or perhaps your thinking there must be a better way to live a more graceful, intelligent and decent life than what we’re living now, then be not dismayed, it’s a difficult and uphill task, that needs constant self-evaluation and monitoring, Why?

The problem here is that, it’s always so difficult to really know who we are as individuals, as self cannot really examine self without being bias or prejudice, just like the metropolitan police or any form of authority wouldn’t be left to examine or purge themselves from wrong doing, rather an independent body is created to examine them and put them in line or in check. It works the same way with individuals, life is not to be examined and understood by the person living it. Having said that, I still and also strongly believe that all that really counts, all that brings lasting happiness, all that’s truly decisive in a well lived and fulfilled life, is the individual’s relationship with his or herself, as everything else he or she does in life is simply a general reflection of how he or she sees, knows and understands themselves. #OurDailyDose

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