Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, “This is the real me,” and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
— William James
I hope you fall in love with yourself. Not because you have to for anyone else to, or because I say so, but just because you deserve to be happy with the person you are spending your entire life with.
Remember in high school when it felt genuinely true when your teachers told you that the popularity contests all ended after graduation? Social media turned that into one gigantic, sweeping-scale, lie.