Appreciate Your Worth As A Person

A warm greetings to each and everyone of you my fellow dear steemians in the community, it's a great pleasure to be here with all of you once again. Today I will love us to dwell a little on the need for us to appreciate ourselves, our children and our love ones for who they really are and for the little things that they can do as individuals.

This is especially important because we all found ourselves in a world where success in life is seems to be measure by ones materials achievement, It is all too common for people to measure someone else worth and value in the the light of other people's achievement and success. If care is not taken, we as individuals can fell into the trap of comparing ourselves and our love ones to those around us.

The urge to measure our worth or that of our love ones against that of others can be very tempting, while occasionally comparing a person to another can at times provide the needed motivation and inspiration to act, experiences in life shows that always comparing ourselves or our children with someone else achievement can and do lead to feelings of inadequacy, jealousy and low self esteem, and this has negative impact on our mental health and overall well-being.

It's also important to always bare in mind that as humans, we are all unique in our own way, with different strengths, ability, as well as different challenges. No two individuals are exactly alike not even twins. So therefore expecting ourselves and our love ones to be like others or do what others are doing is totally unfair and unloving.

True life experiences also shows that when we constantly measure ourselves and others against someone else, we fall to truly appreciate our own unique qualities and ability as individuals. Our true worth and that of our love ones should be measure by the progress and growth that we are making or experiencing as individuals.

Parents especially need to give due consideration to this issue and always remember that their children are born with their own unique talents and abilities as well as their own challenges, for instance I still remember what was like when my children were growing up. My first son was able to walk within the first 8 to 9 months but was unable to talk even when he was up to 2. Whereas my daughter was actually able to talk clearly early in life but was unable to walk well even when she was up to a year plus.

Let us all also not forget the fact that family backgrounds and circumstances differs greatly from one person to another. For example, there are some of us who are born with silver spoon so to say and as such may have good or strong foundation early in life whereas they are many who actually had to fare for themselves all by themselves even right from a very tender age with no one to provide or support them.

So my fellow steemians, instead of comparing ourselves and our love ones against others, let us all thank God for who we are and for what we can do as individuals and let always remember that we are unique in our own ways and just as our talents and abilities differs from that of others so also is our situation, experiences and challenges.