Living among the loving, I'm lucky to have even one person in my life that loves me. Some can go their entire lives without being loved. The world is plagued by people that don't even know how to care for others, much less themselves. For the generations ahead, it's up to them to remember compassion. It took me entirely too long to figure out precisely why it's important to love yourself. With all the different perspectives out there growing up, the one I seemed to deny most was my own. Was my decision to disregard my personal needs and wants my own, or was it programmed into my behavior...

Living among the loving, I'm lucky to have even one person in my life that loves me. Some can go their entire lives without being loved. The world is plagued by people that don't even know how to care for others, much less themselves. For the generations ahead, it's up to them to remember compassion. It took me entirely too long to figure out precisely why it's important to love yourself. With all the different perspectives out there growing up, the one I seemed to deny most was my own. Was my decision to disregard my personal needs and wants my own, or was it programmed into my behavior...