The Modern-day Self-love

The modern-day self-love is worshipping complacency and smugness.

Self-love started as something that empowers us, completes us, and makes us realize who we are and what we are capable of. But most importantly, self-love was meant to make us realize that we are capable of love and affection, and we are capable of demanding love and affection by being the best version of ourselves. Self-love is acceptable, yes. But self-love is not only acceptance of the present. Self-love is also hard work for the future.

Today, what I see is Self-love for the sake of maintaining the established order, self-love as a reason to settle on comfort and contentment over the discomfort of growth and progress, self-love as embracing ourselves; our unhealthiest selves. Well, I understand. Self-love helps us to toast ourselves, even in our minimal points. It's an awareness of knowing what we will handle and not succumb to. It's about making sacrifices and selecting delayed gratification over instant gratification.

But doesn't celebrating ourselves demand momentum and growth? Doesn't celebrating ourselves demand physical well-being? Doesn't self-love demand being our greatest self altogether senses- not just something that appeals to our emotions, but something that appeals to our complete well-being?

Self-love was about endeavoring to become the best form of ourselves. Instead, self-love has become about accepting whoever and whatever we are, no matter how harmful it may be to our selves.

Let us not practice self-love the way social media tells us to. Let us practice self-love the way we are supposed to- by becoming the best version of ourselves and improving our present.