Valuing Your Own Perspective

Written By Colēgia

We often talk about the importance of empathy and how incredibly important it is. We also talk about the importance of self-love as well since it can teach us how crucial it is to care for our well-being. Sometimes though we might feel conflicted and feel that it might be hard to do both of these things at once out of fear of being selfish. That's why today we want to consider valuing our perspective.

How We Look At The World

Perspective can effectively be boiled down to the type of lens we use to look at the world. Empathy allows us to see things from someone else's point of view. Between our own perspective and someone else's, which one of these is more accurate? Both are but our perspective functions as our own personal truth that we live through each day. While this doesn't always reflect how things really work, it's the world how we experience it and there is still a lot of validity to this. Each experience we have helps shape our perspective and builds us into the person that we eventually become. Given that we're always learning, this can help us work on seeing things in a healthier manner. It does take time to get there but it's worth the effort since we want the lens we see the world through to be clear.

“Perspective can effectively be boiled down to the type of lens we use to look at the world.”

Stopping Self-Comparison

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” Often quoted by former American president Teddy Roosevelt, this phrase holds a lot of truth in it. Given how fast-paced the world can be, it's easy to fall into the trap of comparing oneself to others. It can be little things such as feeling the need to constantly be productive or feeling that everyone else's life is much more exciting than ours. The sooner we learn to stop feeling the need to compare our life to others the sooner we'll be able to value ourselves. We need to recognize that everyone's life circumstances are different and the only thing we should measure is our own definition of success and satisfaction. There is merit in our own point of view; recognizing this can give us the courage to see things in a manner that respects our individuality.

“Given how fast-paced the world can be, it's easy to fall into the trap of comparing oneself to others.”

Building Self-Worth

If there's any reason to value our own perspective is that it helps build self-worth. An important element of this is that it teaches us that we don't need to rely on someone else's validation to feel happy. This in turn allows us not to feel personally attacked when receiving criticism or negative feedback. We can just view it as information and choose whether or not it's worth listening to. When we're confident with who we are, it's a lot easier to go with the flow. Perspective does matter and while we want to continue building bridges towards empathy, we need to practice self-love and understanding who we are as well since we matter too.

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