I see you everyday. Every passing day, I see another flaw in you. I see a tiny glitch, which you have been trying to hide from this world, more importantly, from your own self. How many layers of makeup will prove it to you? Or may be those extra 30 minutes at the gym is what you need? May be you should not have gobbled up that piece of cake or maybe that face mask is just the right thing for you!

Your gallery screams of all those quotes which have been trying to tell you that there is nothing as important as “Loving Thyself”. You post statuses, you put captions, you lecture your friends. Shouldn't you, by now be the epitome of self love?

Well, only if they knew how that reflection in the mirror hurts you the most.

Nobody knows it better than you about how self love is a revolutionary idea, the one that is supposed to change everything.

“Someone else will only love you if you start treating yourself right.” Don't you read it all the time? But here you are, cursing yourself for that extra slice of pizza you ate days back. And now, you are starving. May be just for validation, of yourself, and not just others. Is that solo trip going to help you? Or may be it is just another gimmick you are selling to yourself. Because the hot water bath with different bath salts did not help, nor did colouring your hair red and not even those books that lay at a corner telling you how you can turn your life.

The voids in the corners of your heart are not that easy to fill. And may be you are not wrong. Self love is something which does not come in so easy. May be it is a path of long discovery and learning. Those quotes you have been stacking up in your gallery are not an overnight miracle. So do not take it too hard on yourself if your reflection in the mirror shows you all the things you want to change. Loving others is easy and always written about. Truth is, the hardest person to love is yourself, it is, and it will always be. It is something that slowly grows on to you. And how you wish, that it grew faster!

Thank you for reading. Have a great day ahead!