essay

Loving Myself

Young Hong

201203833

 

Self-confidence is about how much pride and love one has for themselves. Self-confidence is rooted from self-esteem and unfortunately, there are no definitive ways to achieve self-confidence. However, there are several steps one can take in order to love themselves. Understanding yourself, enjoying your company and having faith in yourself are all fundamental to gain self-love.

To attain self-confidence, it is important to understand and know yourself. Without this knowledge it would be difficult to be truly happy being under one's own skin. Being aware of the hobbies that you like to recognising your values are all signs of how much you understand yourself. People often get arrogance confused with self-confidence and understanding oneself is key to that difference. Furthermore, it is also important to act upon the knowledge one has. For instance, being aware of your values isn't enough. It is about living life in accordance to one's values that brings happiness.

Next in line would be the ability to enjoy one's company. As our society is becoming more and more SNS based, this has become an ability (yes, ability) that not many individuals have. Readers switched from books to facebook, news we receive are from our news feed. To achieve self confidence, we need to stop depending on our peers as our source of entertainment and start picking up the hobbies that we used to have, before technology took over. Extroverts and introverts alike, both need to spend quality time with their individual self in order to exude self confidence. If one can't enjoy their own company, how can they expect others to?

Last but not least, have faith. Having faith is not only knowing and believing in your best qualities, but also believing in the choices that one makes. Even if it was a bad one. Mistakes are often made but that should not affect the conviction we have of ourselves. Things go wrong all the time but trust that everything will be alright because at the very least, you have yourself.

Self confidence is vital to gain happiness in the sort of world we are living in today. Self confidence is valuing our life and others' regardless of the situation we are in. To build self esteem and to emanate confidence understanding ourselves, enjoying our alone time, having faith are all mandatory.