He's very angry, he says. He thinks others don't like him. He believes he scares others because he's kind of tough looking. And because of his ethnicity.
I thought he was kind of hard on himself and told him so. He seemed surprised at my response.
Yet he's not much different from many addicts - or non-addicts- for that matter.
We get these negative ideas in our head. and - instead of letting them go - we nurture them to the point that we began living by them. We're ugly. Or stupid. Or fat. Never anything positive.
We need to change our view of ourselves. It’s just as easy to have loving and kind perceptions of ourselves. And we might even live up to them.
