Her positivity is infectious and she is one of the few British bloggers I follow. Charade is an awesome blog full of passion, style and the belief that life has no boundaries. I took part in Megan's recent Make Your Life Amazing series in which she posted an uplifting, enlightening, inspirational post every single day of January. I recommend it wholeheartedly - you can even get in on the action today !
Hooray for Megan and the 10 things she loves about herself...
I have found that it is very easy to love yourself when somebody else loves you; it is when we are set down and rejected by such a person that our ability to be on our own side takes a knock. That’s a dark space – a hard, cold space – but it is also beautiful. Because it is in that space that we meet ourselves again. The self without the other person. The self that is still gasping for support – yet we find that we are the only ones there to give it. And that is a priceless introduction.
After a year of being single beyond a four year relationship I have come to know self-support and self-lovin’ in a profound and powerful way. And, what I now realise, is that it would have been the far more heartbreaking thing never to have found that source of love in myself than it was to lose a romantic love.
So here are ten things I don’t need anybody else to say to me, to believe them. Ten things that are vividly, reverberatingly true for me. Ten things that came to sustain me in that dark space I mentioned above. Ten things I love about myself:
1. I love that, sometimes, my heart momentarily swells with appreciation and pure joy at being here at all.
2. I love that I can smile at every person I meet, all day long, most days.
3. I love that I can go easy on myself when it matters.
4. I love that I can give myself a kick in the arse when it matters.
5. I love that I am open to having my mind changed, always.
6. I love that I take risks and book plane tickets.
7. I love that I can write poetry, and never have to show it to anyone, and be healed by it.
8. I love that I have learnt to be alone, not lonely.
9. I love that I am the eternal advocate for relentless optimism.
10. I love that I have a platform through which I can encourage other young women to feel as excited about their lives as I do, and that sometimes it actually works.
Great blog post! I love your strength of character. Some woman never achieve these things.
ReplyDeletexx Mandi
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