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The love in the struggle

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  The love in the struggle     S elf-determination and the love of the struggle As most of you know, I’m a teen and in literally in the journey of, umm allow me to say ‘self discovery’. In my very short life, I have noticed a couple of this that genuinely determine what we end up becoming later on in life. I remember myself telling people and myself that I want to be so many things, like a pilot or a dancer or even a singer. Unfortunately I have finally realized that it’s not about what we want to be at the ‘when we grow up’, it’s about the love in the struggle of what we are doing at that current moment. As I was progressing from form 2 to form3 and 4, I have realized that what we saw or assume we want to do isn’t exactly what we love doing. 99% of the time, young people such as myself just get into the trend of lying to other people and ourselves about what we enjoy doing so that we can be accepted in a family or in society. We end up forcing ourselves t...

SELF-LOVE VS SELF-HATE

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  SELF-LOVE VS SELF-HATE Lately people who are into self-help have been going on and on abbot self-love and self-acceptance. The idea of always having to love and accept yourself has been so publicized and accepted into the community to the extent that "self-hatred" has been demonized and people shun the whole idea of hating a particular trait about yourself. In this blog, will be discussing about the difference between self-hate and self-love, and how these concepts should be applied.     SELF-LOVE   Let's start with the idea that has been accepted in this generation and has been glorified by everyone. From my point of view, self-love is something that is helpful, but then it has its limits. First of all, we cannot be able to practically love everything about ourselves. I too have been in a situation whereby I felt as if loving the trait about myself would change the way I think, but then it comes to its limits I believe that if it’s a trait that you c...