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One person then was not really allowed to be human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That person was me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had an understanding of everyone’s weakness, except for my own. And the person who was denied the right to common humanity was me. What does it mean then – that I equated myself with God, with some infallible and perfect figure?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the one hand, it was so cruel, and on the other, so narcissistic. I was neither perfect nor was I God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Practicing self-compassion forced me to look at myself as a person, a person who is not and cannot be perfect. Far from being lazy and relieved of my own mistakes, no, on the contrary, it reminded me of the value of myself as a human being, as a human being who learns and grows from falls, defeats, and life’s misfortunes and my own imperfections. Perceiving my own weakness helps me to connect with the weaknesses of others and then together we look for a way to be better people towards ourselves and towards others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every day I learn how to give space to myself to be imperfect and to give myself strength and support even when some other voice in me thinks I don\u2019t deserve it, and I deserve it because I am a person who sins, and falls over and over again, but already tomorrow I rise and begin my battle and journey from scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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The unexplained relationships I was supposed to work on, negative beliefs, childhood trauma, useless defense mechanisms, and the list grew bigger and bigger from year to year.<\/p>\n","innerContent":["\n On the other hand, the more I became acquainted with the topics of mental health and personal development, the more I realized the things in myself that I needed to \"fix\". The unexplained relationships I was supposed to work on, negative beliefs, childhood trauma, useless defense mechanisms, and the list grew bigger and bigger from year to year.<\/p>\n"]},{"blockName":null,"attrs":[],"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n\n","innerContent":["\n\n"]},{"blockName":"core\/heading","attrs":[],"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n It was like that because there is so much that needs to be changed, corrected, refined, and repaired in order to live a \"more authentic\" and more profound life.<\/p>\n","innerContent":["\n It was like that because there is so much that needs to be changed, corrected, refined, and repaired in order to live a \"more authentic\" and more profound life.<\/p>\n"]},{"blockName":null,"attrs":[],"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n\n","innerContent":["\n\n"]},{"blockName":"core\/paragraph","attrs":[],"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n Over time, working on yourself has become a new obsession, endlessly digging into your own soul in search of things that should be better, more beautiful, more perfect, cleaner, nobler, and more perfect. 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All this is in the service of \"working on yourself\".<\/h2>\n","innerContent":["\n
All this is in the service of \"working on yourself\".<\/h2>\n"]},{"blockName":null,"attrs":[],"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n\n","innerContent":["\n\n"]},{"blockName":"core\/paragraph","attrs":[],"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n
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