I Deserve To Be Treated With Respect And Dignity

[fin]

I've been through that same experience of starting to recognise my own self worth and it is a major eyeopener. .

I don't think I have really had much if any self worth. I have had various beliefs about myself and also some things I recognised as being strong have existed inside of me. But I know that for a long time - too long I have looked to others to try to get an idea of what my worth was. I think perhaps that self acceptance has been so hard because I have always pretty much had maybe so little self esteem and a very low opinion of myself and my abilities. Fear has strangled me and held me down for too long.

I think and hope I am getting up off the ground now, I feel some change happening inside of me and it is kind of good, so I am trying to think on this as a positive.

Difficult, very difficult to alter conditioning but I don't think it is impossible any more.

 

[cragger65]

Right on Red, a real turning point for you. Thanks for sharing your experience, it's a hopeful message that our view of ourselves can change, and does.

 

[Irton Pike]

Difficult, very difficult to alter conditioning but I don't think it is impossible any more.

It isn't impossible Fin, you keep plugging away at it. It has taken you years of conditioning to lose your self worth/love/kindness and it will take a long time to undo it. But it can be undone.

 

[Tinyflame]

I hope so Irton. Sometimes it seems like it's too late/ too long.

Know your words are for fin, but thank you from me, too.

 

[TLight]

Does respect have to be earned? Or should we just expect it and be angry when it isn't given?

I'm confused about this.

 

[supergirl]

TLight,

I treat people with respect to the best of my abilities. Do I respect them? That is a whole other issue. In general I avoid people I don't respect but if I do have to deal with them I treat them respectfully as I possibly can.

Basically I guess what I am trying to say is that being respected and being treated respectedly are two different things... for me at least.

 

[upstream]

I have to agree with supergirl on this.

 

[TLight]

So should I expect to be treated respectfully?

Do I have to prove myself to be treated respectfully?

I'm tired of always trying to prove myself. I'm tired of being treated disrespectfully.

 

[fin]

We have TLights here in the uk, tiny candles, and they are just the most beautiful and wonderful of little lights, they shine out in the darkess and they can be just so very amazing like fireflies or something...just delightful very beautiful. TLights themselves deserve the utmost respect because they can also burn so badly rather than brightly light if treated without respect.

You TLIght - as a human being, in my opinion, deserve at the very least to be treated with dignity and respect always. And lot of other wonderful things also, but in answer to your question and also to this thread yes you and we all deserve to be treated with respect. No proof required.

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