Forget self-esteem. Don’t even think about it. Don’t let others tell you about it. Don’t let anyone say, “Ah! You are really an important person.”
Esteem will find its way into your life, but only if you never look for it. Go about your daily business; go about your daily efforts to become wise, to have skills, and to acquire information. Go about your daily business as efficiently as you can; go about completing tasks and solving problems. Do not go looking for esteem.
Many people see esteem as something that can be imposed upon a person. Such thinking is the product of a corrupted egalitarian worldview. Everyone in an egalitarian society must have esteem according to contemporary culture. Otherwise, its very absence in a single individual would destroy the egalitarian nature of the society.
If you seek self-esteem, you set yourself up for disappointment. You might even despair. “Oh! Woe! No one sees how valuable I am.” No, don’t fall into that trap.
There’s a line from a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem that applies here: “Sheer plod makes plough down sillion shine.” Plow furrows, and, as you overturn what appears to be ordinary dirt, the moisture within will sparkle as you expose it to tomorrow’s rising sun.
Don’t look for esteem. It will follow you as surely as a furrow follows a plow.
Esteem will find its way into your life, but only if you never look for it. Go about your daily business; go about your daily efforts to become wise, to have skills, and to acquire information. Go about your daily business as efficiently as you can; go about completing tasks and solving problems. Do not go looking for esteem.
Many people see esteem as something that can be imposed upon a person. Such thinking is the product of a corrupted egalitarian worldview. Everyone in an egalitarian society must have esteem according to contemporary culture. Otherwise, its very absence in a single individual would destroy the egalitarian nature of the society.
If you seek self-esteem, you set yourself up for disappointment. You might even despair. “Oh! Woe! No one sees how valuable I am.” No, don’t fall into that trap.
There’s a line from a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem that applies here: “Sheer plod makes plough down sillion shine.” Plow furrows, and, as you overturn what appears to be ordinary dirt, the moisture within will sparkle as you expose it to tomorrow’s rising sun.
Don’t look for esteem. It will follow you as surely as a furrow follows a plow.
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