🔵 By Thomas Riffenburg. Photo by lauragrafie.
When a person can come to the realization, and acceptance of ones own perceived insecurities, hen one can face any other in total confidence and security. The key to this is in the accepting of ones own flaw. There is nothing for another to conquer if it has already been conquered ourselves in contentment. If e view people as critics of our person, then naturally all our own perceived faults are forefront within our minds, wondering whether we’ll find acceptance or rejection because of them. Our own minds become our enemy in this. How can another judge our faults if we have already done so? Our own criticism of yourself is far worse than another, for we can avoid another, but our mind is ever with us. But if we can come to an acceptance of ourselves within ourselves, then by so doing, we shall be able to recognize the same said faults as the source of criticism emanating from another.
When this happens, we will not only not fall prey to the guilt of being imperfect, we shall also be able to have sympathy for the ones judging us, for we shall see the same perceived insecurities within us within them. It would be as though we were looking in a mirror, and since we have accepted ourselves as is, judgment of any kind will begin to be meaningless, for we’ll recognize the security and stability of our own self, and the frailness of the other. Confidence will shine forth from us, and suddenly the judges of our faults will themselves lose their false bravado and begin to dwell upon their own insecurities. We can be our best friend and ally, or we can be our worse enemy and accuser. Love and accept yourself as you are, and strip the power from another over you. It dies not matter from which mold we come from, all hold within themselves a beauty unique to them alone, what is yours?