Many people have said that in order to love another person you must first love yourself. I don't completely agree with that. Loving another person can mean loving things about them, that yourself lacks. There are things I don't like about myself, BUT I love someone very much, and nothing can change it. Not even the fact that I might not like myself, at this point. I mean there are a few things that I don't like, but in general I do like myself.
I feel that people sometimes get the wrong idea about love. They might think that loving someone means that you have to change for them. I feel like if the person loves you for who you truly are then you should not have to change for them. Especially if they can't like you for how you are. Even if there are things you don't like about yourself the person you love shouldn't encourage you to change, they should accept you for how you are and live with it. There are things I don't like about myself but my boyfriend in his opinon thinks that I shouldn't change, and that helps me a lot. He loves me for how I am, rather I like myself or not. He doesn't tell me I have to change because he doesn't think I do. And honestly, it might even be all in my head about myself changing. There really isn't anything wrong with me, it's just the way I handle certain things isn't the right way to do it, or I just don't like it.
Change can be a good thing but it can also turn into something bad if nothing needed to change in the first place. Think about what you're going to do with yourself before you do it.
