How can you expect to stay alive through all of this if you don't have compassion for yourself?

Having compassion for yourself is the key to staying alive here on earth. If you don't have compassion for yourself and hate yourself, who is going to take care of you if you are an adult? You might get away with parents or guardians taking care of you as a child but once you become and adult people don't survive very well unless they have compassion for themselves.

In fact, how can you take care of anyone else if you don't have compassion for yourself first. Because you cannot take care of anyone else unless you take care of yourself first.

This is just life the way it really is.

So, finding compassion for yourself is necessary for you even to get your children or spouse to survive and have a good life or to have any hope at all.

Think about what I'm saying here:

There is a saying "They lifted themselves up by their own bootstraps".

What does this really mean?

It means you cared enough to raise yourself to wherever you wanted or needed to be in life. And where does this care come from? You could say God and that's true too for those of you who believe in God. But, even if you don't, having compassion for yourself and others is also true of how you raise yourself and others up to have a good life.

So, compassion for yourself is the first step to keeping yourself alive and compassion for others is the way you help keep others alive.

So, if you want to be alive and help others be alive too compassion for yourself and for them is necessary for anything good to happen whether you believe in God or not.

By God's Grace