A person describes learning to stop criticizing themselves and forgiving past mistakes. They spent years feeling constantly wrong, until self-acceptance gave them distance from external events and freed them from tying their worth to what happens around them.
It wasn't until I could get good with myself and the kind of person that I am and forgiving myself for the mistakes that I've made in the past instead of just constantly relentlessly beating myself up over regrets and like waking up every day and feeling like I've done something wrong. It wasn't until I got to the point that I was good with myself that you have this very detached experience about the things that happen out there. It's great. It's a measure of like the impact that you make, but it doesn't change anything about how I feel about myself. And I never, ever, ever even knew that it was possible to be good with yourself. That's how much I trashed myself.
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