Self Love--Paige

With this month being February and Valentine's Day just passing,I feel as if it's necessary to have the topic of love. During this month it could either be a really good time or a very sad one during Valentine's time it's no in between. On one hand we have the people with their significant others and on the other hand not so much but feel as if they do need someone to spend quality time with just for the holiday. I'm not talking about all just a general statement from what I hear around. Personally the concept of love is not just for one holiday and gifts but to actually reflect on why you love that someone/something. It’s not all about having someone yeah It’s nice to be with someone but take into consideration we are young we have plenty of time to find someone. Maybe later in life you will find the one youre destined to be with as of for now enjoy yourself. So here is when self love comes into play, since it’s the time of year to love and be loved why don’t you reflect on why you love yourself. Some of you are probably thinking this sounds a little selfish, self absorbed way of thinking having that mentality, meanwhile it's just showing appreciation to yourself once in awhile. We all are very busy,stressing or even at this point the feeling of not caring at all so why not tend to yourself occasionally. With being a high school student i have found myself very Selfless putting school first, staying up late, making myself more stressed than I should be assignments and more assignments due it’s been a rough couple years aha. Whereas now I came to the point where I’m learning to balance myself and school. It is important to find balance, having your inner sanity controlled. Self love is to reflect on what things you do good, what you have accomplished, what things make you genuinely happy even if it's treating yourself to something you feel you deserve go out and do so. Putting yourself in a more positive place and state of mind gives you an imaginable feeling and it's great to see your self worth. Falling in love with the person you are or hope to become is overall self love. Putting yourself first is self love and most importantly obtaining happiness is self love. Coming to the actualization of the idea of love and loving yourself is an essential key to life.Reflecting back on this month personally with having self love seeing what I have going for myself and the actual being in love with who I am as a person makes me so much happier and content with life at the moment. So the next time February comes around don’t dread it as much love is in the air even if it’s just for yourself. Not even just the month of February but all year round take some time for yourself and reflect how you can have self love.