I read this article over a year ago and I knew I wanted to write a blog post about it, but never got around to it. Now that I’m trying to actively clear my inbox I came across this email, to myself, and decided to finally write about it.
I encourage you to watch the video and then come back to this post. The video is so powerful to me because perhaps it voices a lot of fears and doubts we all have about ourselves. We think we aren’t good enough, successful enough, or whatever, the list goes on forever. We rate ourselves so low because we are so critical of ourselves and unable to see the good, only the negative. Yet the people around us, maybe our loved ones, maybe our colleagues, anyone besides ourselves rate us so much better. They see the positive, they feel the good things we do, they don’t see our ghosts or shadows of doubts, only our actions and words. They are not biased by our misgivings, instead appreciating what we are.
Sometimes it takes someone else, other than yourself, to show you the real truth of your worth, yourself. If you rated the people in your life, I can almost guarantee you that you would rate them higher than they would rate themselves.
So this video is almost like a call to action – for you to act. It is a call to ask you to look at yourself with alien eyes, to take a moment away from your own mind and acknowledge your good, to love yourself like you love others. It is a challenge to see past your doubts and your insecurity and try, for a moment, to look at yourself like your mother, your daughter, your husband, your wife, your father, your friend.
To give us the space to be, to exist, to find our great qualities and our happiness. To cut ourselves some slack and find a sense of good.