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I’m a web developer. I spend my whole day, practically every day, experimenting with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; dabbling with Python and Ruby; and inhaling a wide variety of potentially useless information through a few hundred RSS feeds.

30/05/2022

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Learning To Love Yourself

It's not something you can just do in one day. You have to work at it every day, and keep working at it until it becomes a part of who you are.

The first thing you have to do is accept the fact that no one else will love you as much as you love yourself—and that's okay! The fact that you're willing to put in the work to learn how to love yourself and make your life better is an amazing thing, and your friends and family will appreciate seeing how hard you're fighting for your happiness.

The second thing is learning how to be kinder towards yourself. This means forgiving yourself when things don't go as planned or when they do go as planned but still aren't perfect, or even when they go wrong because of your own mistakes. It also means accepting compliments without feeling guilty or embarrassed about them, and acknowledging good things about yourself without being arrogant or pompous about them.

The third thing is taking care of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually—whatever works best for YOU! That might mean going on walks in nature or having deep conversations with close friends over dinner; maybe it means taking up yoga or meditation classes; or maybe it