So many years of education yet nobody ever taught us how to love ourselves and why its so important.

I think one of my biggest downfalls is self love.

Too many people confuse self love with self respect. When in reality they are completely different.

To clarify, self respect is having enough respect for your body not to let anyone take it for granted. It’s when you’re at a party and three lads want one thing, its having enough self respect to walk away if you don’t feel comfortable with them being all over you. Its wearing what you are comfortable with, not the outfit that hardly covers your arse because your mate says it looks ‘fit’.

Self love is the opposite. It’s coming home after a long hard day and running yourself a bath with candles and allowing yourself to relax. Its Sunday’s not getting dressed and having lazy days with ice-cream because you deserve rest. Its going to bed early so you get enough sleep to get you through the next day with a positive mind. It’s nourishing yourself with a balance of healthy and unhealthy foods. It’s depending on yourself to make sure that you are happy and that you are going to be ok because you believe in yourself.
Self love is not functioning based on someone else’s existence.
Its learning to love yourself before you allow anyone else to love you. Because you’ll never really know what you deserve if you don’t love yourself. You will settle for minimum and become heart broke when the person you are chasing is not chasing you.

No matter whether your day is good or bad. You need to remember the thing that is most important right now. And that’s you. It does not matter whether you have 15 essays and 5 pieces of coursework to do. If you are crumbling under the pressure then you are not looking after yourself. Your mental health comes first and it always will. Because whats education when you have give up on yourself?
Whats education when you don’t even see the future? It becomes pointless.

So before you stay up all night worrying about the work you have due in, or the things you have got to do by tomorrow. Look after yourself, take a bath with candles, put your favorite song on and sing the loudest you have ever sung. Because before you can accomplish things you have to learn to love yourself.