I have consistently pondered on one specific topic. This is \u2018point of view\u2019.<\/p>\n
This could mean a number of things, but the context that I specifically thought about was the point of view of others of myself. What they look at, or think when they first encounter me. \u00a0What they view as my best and worst feature, what kind of person I look like when they pass me in the street?<\/p>\n
I have always, but recently consistently thought about this. \u00a0Although we have mirrors, they never give the clear picture, the clear reflection of how we are viewed by others because our minds tell us that\u2026\u00a0 it creates that chatter that it thinks and believes others will do\/ are doing when they see you.<\/p>\n
Truthfully, we will never find out the opinions of strangers, how we look, how we come across to them. Even friends\/family don\u2019t always tell us the honest truth about how they view us. Maybe I look nice to them today as they told me, or maybe they truly believe I don\u2019t? There\u2019s no way of knowing their \u201cown chatter\u201d for its truth.<\/p>\n
This brings me nicely onto the meaning of ourselves to others. This is one I constantly think about. To ourselves, we may be useless, ugly, rude, ignorant, monstrous to look at, but to our friends and family we may be everything and more that our minds would never convince us we are. This huge factor can become the source of all agitation. For me, it sometimes is. When we are told we are \u2018amazing\u2019, we look \u2018beautiful\u2019, we make the world a \u2018brighter place\u2019, we can\u2019t for one second believe that. We feel good after its said, but most of the time it\u2019s never truly believed.<\/p>\n
How can we not see ourselves the way they do? Why can\u2019t I look at myself in their point of view?. Well, trusting people. Trusting their opinions and their love, and never letting that inner questioning take over and make you believe they are lying. When this happens it\u2019s because you haven\u2019t loved yourself yet. That\u2019s a symptom of lack of self-love, which I hope you can diagnose and fix before you are incapable of loving yourself or others anymore.<\/p>\n
You are all very capable of viewing yourself from another point of view; you just need that extra ounce of self-love and a change of mind-set before you do. The next time you are complimented say \u201cThank you. I was thinking the same about myself today\u201d. \u00a0Once you\u2019ve started to accept that you are actually seen as something other than what your tremendously evil mind is telling you, then your point of view will begin to switch. \u00a0Maybe look deep into your mind, and think \u2018why is it you\u2019re telling me I\u2019m not worthy and I don\u2019t look socially acceptable today?\u2019, and question whether this is because the idea of being confident has capitalised into the much bigger and more evil adjective which is \u201cegotistical\u201d.<\/p>\n
Confidence isn\u2019t big headed, it\u2019s not egotistical or rude, its seeing your body, your personality, your spirit, you as a being, and not just a ghost in an ever-growing society of models and perfect people with perfect lives. Be confident. Be whatever you want to be. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Take. The. Compliments.<\/p>\n
Yes, our society has those people you view as perfect, the models, the optimists of themselves. That \u2018perfect\u2019 person you walk by,\u00a0 is really a man who is hiding his suicidal thoughts because his point of view of himself is too strong, and sharing would be going against being a man (obviously\u2026not). He\u2019s looking at you while you pass him by, with your hair \u2018messy\u2019, your joggers on and thinking wow. She\/he\/they have their life together. She\/he\/they look amazing. \u00a0But, no. You don\u2019t look amazing do you? Because compared to his good looks you are nothing. NO.<\/p>\n
So, the lesson to learn of challenging the mind, challenging society, and being so confident and take the compliment, And as Ariana Grande stated in her song \u201cI\u2019d love to see me from your point of view\u201d,.<\/p>\n
I am now stating for you reading,\u00a0 \u201cI love seeing me from your point of view\u201d.<\/p>\n
Article by Young Reporter Grace Trippett<\/strong> Read Grace’s take on ‘point of view’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[369,11],"tags":[626],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-5N4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22262"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22268,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22262\/revisions\/22268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFirst appeared in Grimsby Telegraph 1st December 2020<\/em><\/p>\n\n