I've been reflecting a lot lately on the idea of self-acceptance and self-empathy. I think it's so important that we move beyond our kind of inhibitions and hang-ups maybe our own personal prejudices and biases to really look inward and try to understand and accept our own worldview as in some ways flawed and in other ways absolutely correct, it's really important that we don't only look critically to. Wards others but we look critically towards ourselves and be more reflective about our choices and about the decisions we make and in doing so we don't automatically apply that same lens of negative criticism towards ourselves that we might apply in other aspects of our life this is because your own self-worth is really determined by how you how that internal monologue kind of takes shape and being able to express empathy. Take time for empathy with yourself can be really critical especially in times of turbulence and difficulty. It's about being patient with yourself and about trying to relate to who you are in a new and different way and that means going beyond just looking at yourself as an enemy or looking at yourself as a problem, but looking at yourself as a joyful and expressive person. And I always try to remind myself that the work that I do the work that people in my field are doing I this has been a very short amount of time and abroad scheme of things and that we can be patient in our exercise of diligence and of pushing the envelope. I if this is not meant to this is not about being complacent this is about moving forward, but being empathic that the, Jury were on has only recently begun it was only maybe a hundred 150 years ago that our human rights kind of became enshrined and. We have to understand that although there's still that's still over a century that we've been working on some of the really critical issues in society that it's not going to happen overnight and that we have to be patient and again I kind of remind myself that yes 150 years ago, we got human rights and in a hundred million years ago 200 million years ago, there were dinosaurs and so we've come a long way as an evolutionary terms so I think as we continue to push the envelope as we continue to move society forward as we continue to focus on. Growth. Within sustainable development and tackle critical issues that are around us that we are patient that we are empathic with ourselves and that we look at the world through a critical lens, but a lens of understanding and compassion.
