Treating myself as my best friend

A question given to me was that would I treat others as the way I treat myself upon a failure? What do we do when we see a 1-year old fall down in the process of learning to walk? Wouldn’t we be clapping to encourage the baby? What would we say to our best friends when they make mistakes and feel down?

If it is different from the way I treat myself, the question is why is it so? Why am I different than them? Am I very special that I treat myself differently? I may say that it is normal to be upset as I look like a baby in the midst of adult in terms of resilient skills. But why don’t I say that if my friends are in that position? Do I think myself as special? Why do I have higher standard on myself?

Today I am reminded again to be kind to myself, to be patient to myself, to learn to give praise to celebrate each progress and encouragement to lift up from each failure.

Just like this writing, there is no need to judge myself. There is also no need to fear of the future, that is whether I can maintain my good feeling like this. The more important thing is to encourage myself again when I fall. Stop comparing myself with others, stop comparing myself with my past achievement. And learn to be friend of myself.