LOVE in
LOVE is so much easier to give than to receive, at least in my experience. I spent years doubting the LOVE I was given because I lacked an essential component.
I didn’t love myself
A described it to me once like this:
Say you have a flower you’d like to pot. First, you have to put dirt in the pot. Better yet, put some gravel down and then put dirt in the pot. If you just plop the plant in the pot, there’s no way it will grow or thrive. It needs nourishment and a stable environment.
That’s self-love for a writer.
We have to fill our pots with self-LOVE before we can expect to nourish anything else. That includes our writing.
I’ve talked about HOPE being the reason we keep writing (because if we don’t HOPE, we’re lost). Now we need to realize that LOVE is the reason we can write in the first place.
LOVE of words
LOVE of writing
LOVE of communication, or a message, or a medium, or whatever…
Without self-love, we might as well be dry-potting plants.
