Who will decide your worth?
Uncle Sam, Aunty Rubina, the boy judging your outfits, the girl next door, or a successful respected person of the social systems giving commentary of his or her personal point-of-view?
Whose definition you will accept?
On whose music you will dance?
Everyone has her own music and a different dance. Will you dance on everyone’s beat?
Who will decide your self-worth?
You think you’re not good enough. In whose eyes? To whom you want to show you’re successful and worth loving? Who will give you the approval of your self-worthiness?
Who the hell is someone to tell you who you’re?
Know yourself. You can know yourself better than anyone else could ever.
You can know better your strengths and weaknesses, much better than anyone else could ever tell you.
Analyze yourself, observe yourself, understand yourself, learn from everyone around you but never let anyone else decide your ‘self-worth’. You may not be good at one thing or something but it’s impossible that you’re useless in everything. Identify your strengths. Make it stronger. Don’t waste time on rectifying your each and every weakness. First, sharp the saw of your one strength enough before moving to reduce the bundle of little weaknesses. Everyone has a lot. Even your great mentors. Find solace with this simple truth.
Be 'humble' enough to learn but don’t allow anyone to call ‘you’ worthless. You’re ‘something’. You’re worth something. Work on that.
It’s a battle. Don’t let anything or anyone touch you personally. Stay calm. Nothing is personal here. You’re not a babe of wax that it will get melted by the heat of insult by some creepy real-life monster or the comment of a roadside Romeo...
One of the things that is crucial to learn for every person irrespective of age and gender is that if you’re not ‘emotionally resilient’ any Tom, Dick and Harry can make you feel low and worthless irrespective of your status and authority and any Selina, Julia or Alisa will break your heart no matter how smart and colorful you are.
It’s a battle. Always happening at both inner and outer levels. If you’re a warrior, you will always find ways to win both the inner and outer battles of life and if you’re a pawn of a chessboard, others will always use you for their own benefit. Because then, ‘they’ will decide your self-esteem, self-respect, and self-worth.
''And most of the time ‘they’ will prove and you will believe to accept that you’re not good enough as they are. You are a no one. You’re useless.''
And for that, you can’t blame them. You gave them the authority to decide ‘who you are’?
How can anyone decide who you are?
Who the hell is someone to tell you ‘who you are’?
You’re something. And you’re worth something. Realize THAT. You’re THAT.
It’s neither a motivation nor inspiration. It’s ‘something’ that is more than else ‘everything’. Be THAT. Because You’re THAT.