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Friendship Begins at Home

Friendship Begins at Home

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·October 19, 2025
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jmathai

Introspection and self awareness are prerequisites to love yourself. Or, at least, to become someone you can love.

Loving yourself means you have acknowledged your weaknesses. Whether or not you strengthen them, it enables you to empathize with others as their own weaknesses manifest.

The world becomes much more cozy once you realize others are not much different than you.

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Friending yourself means that you can joke at your own expense!

HippyTed

To friendship and love of others I say, you cannot sell what you don't have.

You can do it for a while but, the long lasting stuff, you need that personal foundation.

Easily said but difficult to do for many.

It requires a level of self awareness and an acknowledgement of your strengths and weaknesses and how they impact yourself and others. But like a doctor, the first step to a cure is a correct diagnosis.

Something something Jungian shadow work or something.