At the risk of sounding like a hypocrite, I thought I’d try to spread a little positivity around here. It’s a little game I’d play with myself, when I was feeling better. Because being depressed, we tend to only see the bad.
I got the idea from the post about self-hatred by eternaldarkness, so shout out to you!
I’ll start:
- I love my wild imagination, that allows me to construct worlds in my head that I can escape to, and never leaves me bored.
- I love that I have a mother who loves me and would do anything for me.
- I love that I speak English so well (second language), because it allows me to find like-minded people.
- And I love that for some reason my body allows me to eat all I want, not do any exercise and still stay relatively thin.
See? It can be anything, even the smallest, most insignificant thing as long as it still answers the question.
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1. I can’t think bad about others. Curse or a blessing I don’t know.
2. I don’t talk. I listen.
3. I haven’t lost my humanity after all that I have gone through.
4. I am unusual.
I can list a few. They’ll probably be random, though.
I love that cats seem to gravitate towards me like I’m furniture. It gives my life purpose. I’m a sofa.
I love that I have a one-track mind. If I had two, I’d get confused.
I love that I don’t get Stevens-Johnson syndrome when I take ibuprofen. That would suck.
I love that I can’t think of a #4. If I could, I’d be consistent.
I had an incredibly hard time actually doing this… Maybe it’s just my upbringing, but sitting here writing positive things about myself made me feel arrogant. Here goes:
I like that I can carry a tune, even though I’ve yet to meet anyone I’ve felt comfortable singing around.
I like that I can bring to life the characters and creatures I imagine.
That I have a home, despite how much it feels like a prison.
And that I’m too bullheaded to give up.
1. I like the fact that I was able to see life from a rational perspective very early in life, what made me be free from religions and many of the social conventions derived from it;
2. I like being adventurous, not feeling attached to a place, and not being afraid of packing my bags and leaving;
3. I like knowing that I strive to be kind, and that I try to put myself on other people’s shoes to understand their actions and their reasons;
4. I like the fact that I am healthy and that some people truly think I’m beautiful — even though I don’t agree with them.
1- I like my artistic talent. I enjoy making comics, even if I don’t always love what little paid work I get.
2- I like my health. I don’t get sick easily, and when I do, I can fight through it and continue working, and am over it in no time.
3- I like how adaptable I can be when it comes to work. My old job was nights, so when I learned my new job was going to be in the mornings, I was dreading having to readjust my body to waking up early. But you know what? I did it. And it didn’t even take that long.
4- I like my adorable baby nephew. Cuz he’s just a widdle cutie.
I love that I have a loving family, especially a mother that despite having me as a good for nothing son, is really immeasurably loving
I love that I have good English, a second language to me, because it had led me to find people, love, and yes pain, but “it was worth it” kind of pain
I love that right now I am realizing a dream I had of escaping my home country 🙂 not sure how much better the world outside is, but I sworn to myself i would do it when I was small, I won’t be stopping now
I love that right now, despite not having a clear reason to live for, or that much of a goal. I am carrying on. Belief of better days? Family? nah. I just want to really live. If i haven’t lived, I can’t die
Some of the best moments I had in life were only possible because I learnt English. My life would have been completely different, to the worse, without it. Non-english speakers think learning English is just a matter of increasing their job opportunities, they don’t realize how disconnected from the rest of the world they are.