Many of our personal problems result from a failure to love ourselves and accept the way we are made. If we are angry or resentful about how we look, or think or feel, we only make our situation worse. Anger and resentment do not bring about a change for the better. Love is the agent for change. I believe that Ben has faced more difficult challenges than I have, but I certainly relate to these paragraphs.
Love is so important.
I tried to make myself love myself in spite of my insufficiencies. It didn't work. I needed to accept myself, first. I believed that other people were better than me and that I was damaged goods. I set out to do better than the next person in everything I did only to shortchange myself because I was not as good as the next person, therefore my outstanding efforts only equaled theirs.