Social Media has given way to a narcissistic world where we're inundated with status updates, photos, and humble brags that can make us lose our own sense of self worth. This makes it harder to love yourself and weirdly easier at the same time.
There is a predominant idea that you have to have a positive relationship with yourself before you should bring someone else into your life. Matt Joseph Diaz claims that idea is invalidating. The road to self love is a difficult and long one. We all carry heavy burdens on our shoulders, and by championing self love we perpetuate a toxic idea that you have to get to a certain point before you're valuable to someone else. We all seem to forget that excessive positivity can be dangerous.
The social profiles we build for ourselves make us feel indispensable. We've been trained to only present the most perfect, carefully constructed version of ourselves outward onto others. These caricatures of ourselves are made to satisfy our own warped need for self love in a socially driven world. We're always building better profiles, left wondering what it says about us. It shouldn't say much, it's a fiction.
You don't have to love yourself before you're worthy of love. You don't even have to love your social media profile to be worthy of another person's love. Love your own personal journey of self discovery instead. Look forward to learning new things about yourself. Embrace change and challenge your past.