Smart Moves

14Self-love

THINGS THAT DO NOT DEFINE YOU

Growing up, we go through the journey of understanding who we are and how we see ourselves. It's a difficult pathway, filled with the opinions of others, the judgement of societal ‘norms' and the pressures of our family and friends trying to define who we are. For many of us, it leads us to try to fit into a certain box so that we feel we belong, or achieve certain things so we feel important and worthy. We attach our self-worth to arbitrary things like our job title, our education or our income, while losing touch with what really matters and who we truly are. While there are a number of aspects of our lives that shape who we are, they definitely do not define us.

YOUR JOB

Society places a significance on the work and occupation of each individual, and often tries to group or stereotype people based on this. This filters down to an individual level, where many people still define themselves by their jobs and judge others using the same. How many times have you met someone new and the first thing they ask is: ‘So what do you do?’ We spend a lot of hours in our week at work. But at the end of the day, your job is just a job. It does not define your worth or who you are. It does not determine how intelligent or worthy or important you are. No matter what field you are in or where you work, you have value.

OTHER PEOPLE'S OPINIONS