The Courage To Be Dislikedby Parker on TwosNo matter what has occurred in your life up to this point, it should have no bearing at all on how you live from now on. You, living in the here and now, are the one who determines your own lifeFirst accept "myself now," then regardless of the outcome have the courage to step forwardWhy do you dislike yourself? Why do you focus only on your shortcomings, and why have you decided to not start liking yourself? It's because you are overly afraid of being disliked by other people and getting hurt in your interpersonal relations. You think that instead of getting entangled in such situations, it would be better if you just didn't have relations with anyone in the first place. Your goal is to not get hurt in your relationships with other people. If you can shut yourself into your own shell, you won't have to interact with anyone, and you'll even have a justification ready whenever other people snub you. That it's because of your shortcomings that you get snubbed, and if things weren't this way, you too could be lovedBeing alone isn't what makes you feel lonely. Loneliness is having other people and society and community around you, and having a deep sense of being excluded from themThe one who boasts does so only out of a feeling of inferiorityIf one really has confidence in oneself, one doesn't feel the need to boast. It's because one's feeling of inferiority is strong that one boasts. One feels the need to flaunt one's superiority all the more. There's the fear that if one doesn't do that, not a single person will accept one "the way I am"Life is not a competition. There is no need to compare oneself with othersAll of us are different. Gender, age, knowledge, experience, appearance—no two of us are exactly the same. Let's acknowledge in a positive manner the fact that other people are different from us. And that we are not the same, but we are equal