A Personal Request

[Stranger]

Reflecting, I recognized that everything I listed had to do with relating to others. More recently, focusing on how I relate to myself has become more prominent and important, and I discovered all sorts of challenges or problems in my attitudes toward myself. It's a common affliction on planet Earth, as Quo pointed out, but it's still important to recognize it when we find ourselves not being as kind and loving toward ourselves as we are to others. The golden rule works in both directions.

With that said, I do wonder if being harder on myself helped me in some way to put more effort into becoming kinder to others? I think it very well may have. But at this point it's time to move beyond that.