Don't be self-critical, it kills the soul.

Sometimes I ask myself the question, am I self-critical, and how much does it affect my life ?!

Those constantly asked questions like:

You shouldn't have said it, you should have saved it,

you should have known.

These are just some of the sentences that came to my mind - uttered in my personal voice, full of anger, resentment and self-disappointment. The more I changed as a person, the louder and more aggressive this voice became, not believing that the person I was becoming would stop respecting some of his old principles. Not to mention how much it intensified when someone around me appeared with a similar, critical angle of view towards me.

I felt completely exhausted by those re-examinations. "Leave me alone" is the only thing I wanted to escape from myself - that brutal analyticalness that sees everything and does not give answers.

“Loving yourself” and “being good to yourself” are hard-to-apply things in my case. With thought patterns, I literally need to hack myself in order to be able to stop them. Paradoxically, when I succeed in something like that, then I really have the feeling that I love myself more.

The moment I truly begin to love myself, all self-criticism will disappear ... Mistakes are learned, and life gives us a second chance to do what we forgot last time or correct what we did.