I often think of what people actually mean when they say they love themselves because love in this day and age imagines itself as servicing of its own needs to the exclusion of the whole. I never felt that type of love for myself. I saw my love for myself as a mirror to the love I had for those that I loved and sometimes it took sacrificing of oneself for the betterment of all. My ideology of what to love oneself means, to my chagrin, was outdated, outmoded and oblivious to the very ones that I thought would reciprocate by nature. I was wrong.
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