ザッカリー・リーヴァイさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ザッカリー・リーヴァイInstagram)「I was going thru some old photos today and stumbled upon these lil nuggets. I’m not exactly sure of the ages, but ima say that’s probably me around 5, 8, 12, and 15. In some ways it’s like looking at a stranger. But mostly I just see me in these young boys, or rather, I see all them in me. Funny how no matter how old we get, we can still reach back and feel our past selves. Though, for a long time, I didn’t want to. I didn’t like me. I didn’t love me. I was simply never taught what that meant, or how it worked. And that’s mainly because my parents never learned it from their parents before me. Our mental and emotional health can and will be permanently linked to our generational traumas until we stop the cycle ourselves. It took me 37 years of not loving myself before I broke down and didn’t want to live anymore. Ultimately, it was learning to love myself, and all these young, vibrant, fragile versions myself, that finally turned my life around. By truly and fully loving myself, I was now affording myself things like kindness, and patience, and forgiveness, and grace. Things that, because of my bad programming, I believed I wasn’t worthy of. You may feel that way too. You may feel that no matter how hard you’ve tried, it’s simply not enough. That somehow you have not, and will not, live up to whatever standards have been set that either deem us worthy or not. You may feel that while others deserve these things, you do not. Well, after having gone thru my own darkness, and finding light on the other side, I can assure you that you ARE deserving of kindness. You ARE deserving of patience. You ARE deserving of forgiveness. You ARE deserving of grace. YOU ARE DESERVING OF LOVE. The very fact that you exist on this planet is a miracle. And I pray that we can move forward in this life treating ourselves and each other as the miracles that we are. You are loved. Your are worthy of that love. You ARE love. It’s true. It just is. 🙏 #goloveyourself」9月6日 15時46分