A hippie approached me when she saw me took time to smell, admire a yellow daisy, plucked and carried the flower around.
She said: "I should also do that, thanks for reminding me..of 'self-love'. We need it in our lives."
She soon found her flower, stuck in her hair, and she drifted, danced her way to the beach...
I got home last night after spending 5 days in Ibiza.
"You should be at the library studying!", a friend remarked after he saw an Instagram post.
I sent him a picture of the book I'm reading...
He laughed and said: "That's still beach bum."
I finished the book. It has some useful information. The emphasis is set on personal responsibility of achieving the work required to get a PhD. It was set in a language of expectations, also knowing where to find support from peer groups, external resources and supervisors.There is an insistence on the topic of 'feeling isolated'. I guess I have to get used to it, continue to stay focus and motivated.
It is very early days, I am sure there will be storms and breakdowns in the next 3 years. I should expect it.
But, I would like to reflect on that conversation by the beach about 'Self-love'.
The Oxford dictionary defined it as "regard for own well-being and happiness", while Justin Beiber wrote a song about a self-centred person should only "love yourself."
In Portrait of Self (2003), C. Sedikides and A.P. Gregg referred it as " a subjective appraisal, can be viewed in a positive or negative way."
From egotism to promoting mental health, whatever the school of thought. I think it is important to give love, time and attention to oneself.
I always believe, we cannot give what we don't have.
We cannot truly love others, if we don't have love within our own self.
After all, Plato's Apology stated: "An unexamined life is not worth living."
My trip to Ibiza is my self -love.
I shouldn't be guilty about it.
She soon found her flower, stuck in her hair, and she drifted, danced her way to the beach...
I got home last night after spending 5 days in Ibiza.
"You should be at the library studying!", a friend remarked after he saw an Instagram post.
I sent him a picture of the book I'm reading...
He laughed and said: "That's still beach bum."
I finished the book. It has some useful information. The emphasis is set on personal responsibility of achieving the work required to get a PhD. It was set in a language of expectations, also knowing where to find support from peer groups, external resources and supervisors.There is an insistence on the topic of 'feeling isolated'. I guess I have to get used to it, continue to stay focus and motivated.
It is very early days, I am sure there will be storms and breakdowns in the next 3 years. I should expect it.
But, I would like to reflect on that conversation by the beach about 'Self-love'.
The Oxford dictionary defined it as "regard for own well-being and happiness", while Justin Beiber wrote a song about a self-centred person should only "love yourself."
In Portrait of Self (2003), C. Sedikides and A.P. Gregg referred it as " a subjective appraisal, can be viewed in a positive or negative way."
From egotism to promoting mental health, whatever the school of thought. I think it is important to give love, time and attention to oneself.
I always believe, we cannot give what we don't have.
We cannot truly love others, if we don't have love within our own self.
After all, Plato's Apology stated: "An unexamined life is not worth living."
My trip to Ibiza is my self -love.
I shouldn't be guilty about it.
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