Your Truth

What matters to you? The answer to this question might seem obvious to you but it's not. You might think of your job, your partner, your family, your friends. Of course, they all matter a lot to you and they might all be at reach. And yet, you're still unhappy, unsatisfied and not at peace with the world. If you consider yourself a perfectly happy person, you can stop reading. In my case, it took a lot of reflection to find the missing piece of the puzzle. Like something misplaced, what I was looking for had been there the whole time, in plain sight: myself. It took me 34 years to realize that, first and foremost, I need to direct acceptance, attention and affection toward myself. Cognitive behavioral therapy helped me figure out the level of negativity I had been pouring on myself every single day of my life. Ingrained thought patterns had become automatic self-beating mental scripts, highlighting my flaws, limits, fears and weaknesses. However, I feel that it's ultimately plain and simple common sense: you cannot really appreciate anything in life until you start believing that the best thing in life is YOU!