Life Is What You Make It!

“The right attitude & one arm will beat the wrong attitude & two arms every time.” - David Schwartz The above statement is true in every facet of life. When I began college, I had to travel 50 minutes back & forth each day. I got so tired of my monotonous schedule that I ended up cursing my life every chance I got. “This course is so boring” , “it’s too hot!” , “it’s too cold!” , “I hate my life” were some of the many pessimistic thoughts that used to occur to me everyday. I left all extracurricular activities because I was “too tired” all the time. So of course I had failed as a student, scoring grades lower than ever & never willing to attend lectures. My mother got so frustrated that one day she challenged me to not speak anything negative about my life, no matter what. The schedule was same, but to my surprise I realized that I was unexpectedly happier with myself by the end of the day. So I decided to continue this behavior for a few more days, and I didn’t

Self love isn’t about how you choose to pamper yourself, it is about what the outcome is. As long as it does not make you feel happy or satisfied with yourself, it is not self love. Self love does not mean that you need to isolate yourself from everyone, it means that it is okay to take some time to yourself once in a while. Self love does not mean you have to get manicures done, sometimes it just means gathering the strength to get out of bed in the morning to study or to go to work. Self love isn’t always about how many hours you grind at the gym or how many calories you didn’t consume, sometimes it is just about how you did not cry yourself to sleep or how you finished the tasks you’ve been putting off for so long. Spending some time by yourself is good for you as you learn more about yourself as a person. But if you spend all of your alone time binge watching movies and eating tons of unhealthy food, it is not self love. It’s self destruction. These days, pe