Think about that while listening to
Whitney Houston’s
The Greatest Love Of All.
I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
Everybody’s searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfilled my needs
A lonely place to be
And so I learned to depend on me
[Chorus:]
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone’s shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I’ll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can’t take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all
I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
[Chorus]
And if, by chance, that special place
That you’ve been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love
Thanks for visiting,
Eric
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I love the Houston song. I sing it when life is challenging. It lifts me up. I believe that love surrounds us and flows within us. That said, there many kinds of love. Hugs, Barbara
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I think for some people the ability to love themselves comes easily or perhaps they just make it look easy. I do not think I have achieved the ability to love myself. I also don’t agree that you have to be able to love yourself in order to love someone else. I knew the second I heard my son’s heart beating that I loved him. However, I still don’t think I really love myself.
I think it depends on how a child grows up on how easy it may be to know what love even is. As you say, having a child may make the difference for a parent — babies are easier to love than self sometimes. Having a child may be the spark to discover a need for genuine love and genuine self-love… we do all need to be able to give love but being loved often is necessary when there is low self-esteem.
As for myself, I recall some self-loathing in my youth. It was difficult to work myself away from that.
I honestly can’t say I see myself ever not hating myself on some level.
My mentor led me to knowing myself from learning what love is and he taught me to look for peace and serenity and to cease being a ruthless critic. He told me that I must awaken to becoming a new person and that I must look for a new freedom and a new happiness and that whatever that I could see about my current day and abut my past memories that was in my mind good was what I must train myself to notice and remember. He strongly values God and so do I now — however, I do think that belief in God is optional to a point at least. Over some time it became like waking up into a new person each morning — learning to value my skills and to apply these to being not what others want from me so much anymore but more about making good decisions. If you search “how can i love myself” you might be amazed that there are hundreds of good suggestions. We can’t get all of it in a short time and over time we tend to get far more than we’d thought possible.
I went to therapy a long time ago — it wasn’t quick either.
Thank you so much for this comment. Most days I am able to remind myself to focus on the positive things. Today was one of those days where it was hard for me to focus on the good things. I just felt overwhelmed by everything. My new therapist teaches the same thing your mentor teaches and when I can clear my mind I can do that. Today my husband too my son out and spent more time than he was expecting. It was a good mental and emotional break. I think I will go to bed early tonight to continue the relaxed feeling.
Achievable, yes. Easily? I don’t think so..but that’s my opinion only.
I learned from Wikipedia that “‘The Greatest Love of All’ is a song written by Michael Masser and Linda Creed and originally recorded by George Benson for the 1977 Muhammad Ali biopic The Greatest.”
I doubt that Whitney Houston achieved high self-esteem and true love of herself. However, I do believe that the young man, Cascius Clay did love himself into Muhammad Ali — and that was not easy.
Thanks!
~ Eric
If you don’t love yourself, it is hard to love anyone else. I believe we need to teach children to love and respect themselves. Think of how many happy and well adjusted adults there would be!
I believe that Michele.
Thanks!
~ Eric
First off, thank you for tagging my poem in this!
Secondly, to answer your question–since my poem is after all related to Whitney Houston’s song–I believe “the greatest love of all” is very achievable and in fact necessary to develop fully as a person. I’ve heard the old aphorism “You can’t love somebody until you love yourself” throughout my entire life, but didn’t believe it until recently. I think learning to understand yourself–your faults and your strengths–as well as learning to forgive yourself (above all) for your mistakes is vital to your future success romantically, vocationally, mentally, etc. And as a result, you just learn to enjoy life more.
To say that it “is easy to achieve,” as Mrs. Houston claims–I’d have to disagree. But any truly thinking and hard-working person, I believe, will find it someday.
“To say that it “is easy to achieve,” as Mrs. Houston claims–I’d have to disagree. But any truly thinking and hard-working person, I believe, will find it someday.”
Unfortunately, Whitney Houston may have veered permanently of course.
For me, I am always changing — even as what I sense in Spirit, change is an undercurrent although, I may classify that as not really change but rather loving compliance.
Thanks for commenting. I did enjoy your poem Mike.
~ Eric
Sometimes people report that spiritual practices are difficult — the same people tend to report that family or work or driving is difficult.