Reflection on love

"I'm worth being loved too, simply because I exist!"

This sentence changed my life completely, when I caught myself saying it out loud, as I was going through the first period of lockdown - alone - at the beginning of 2020.

That phrase is my personal "Eureka!".

The lockdown had pushed me over the edge, just as I was sinking into an exhausting burn-out.

I had two options:

* the first option: to persist in a lifestyle in which I was wasting away (like a tortoise stubbornly trying to get round a corner at all costs, without ever realizing that it could neither move forward nor break down the walls that were resisting it);

* the second one: to do everything I can to change my perspective and get out of this angle that condemns me to a total loss of meaning, in every area.

The therapy I'd started before 2020 and the personal development tools I'd picked up here and there in books and on the Internet helped me to realize how much I was devaluing and disrespecting myself - convinced that, unlike other people, I was only "lovable" if and ONLY IF I did what was expected of me (even if it meant going completely against my own values, needs, desires, limits...).

My quest for meaning led me to that famous day in 2020 when I allowed myself to be "lovable" because, and ONLY because "I exist"!

Now I'd like to address this sentence to you:

"You too are worth being loved - whoever you are, whatever you've done - simply because you exist!"

With love,

F.