It has been way too long...

I have had some ups and downs over the past year but things are finally clicking. Mentally I have been in a very low place. Self-pity, guilt, and low self esteem have been keeping me down. I have let them keep me down. I keep me down. Recently I realized that those negative thoughts and feelings are not part of the true me. I am confident, I am a good person, I love me. The difference between now and then is only that I allow myself to feel this love. When you feel love for yourself you are able to genuinely give love. "Pain is simply the difference between the way things are and the way you want them to be." - The Precious Present by Spencer Johnson, MD. (thanks Ted!).