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Narcissism or Self Love?
Posted on: 5.18.2018
I tend to flip the script on most things, and when I think about social media and the way people use it - to promote themselves, for example, I think of self love. Most people would call this narcissism. But if it is narcissistic to be narcissistic (woah), then so be it. Because self-love could potentially evolve into world love. And by golly let's not try to stop that.
The thing is, we can't control the way people think of us. We can do our best, by dressing well, speaking well, etc. to try to influence the way people judge us and stereotype us and hopefully, respect us. But the stereotypes that have been written about people that look like me, for example - Middle Eastern with thick frizzy curly hair - will not wash off me no matter how hard I try.
So the best thing for me to do is to LOVE MYSELF, and do my best to reflect the way I think and feel about myself on social media, in hopes of influencing a few people to think about me in the same way.
Social media allows me to be true to myself. It gives me a space to be who I am in my mind as opposed to who I have to be in socially constructed spaces.
I have never felt more ethnic than I do now that I am 33 and living in San Francisco. I never realized how diverse Los Angeles was. WOW do I miss the diversity. There are so many caucasians here, and while they are respectful towards me, they (no matter how hard they try) cannot treat me the way I fully want to be treated because of their subconscious and their limiting beliefs due to the ways they were raised. It's no one's fault. It's everyone's fault. If we all rise up to a higher vibration, and stay woke, we can all live in world peace - and wow what would that type of world feel like? Nirvana? Utopia? Wonderland? I get excited just thinking about it.
xoxo
Annabella
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