There is a desire in all of us to revere something, and a thousand things competing for that attention every day. But here is a truth I keep coming back to, one I have built a lot of my work on. Your worth is infinite, inherent, and unearned. You do not have to perform for it. It was never up for negotiation, and there is nothing you could do to add to it or subtract from it.
We Keep Measuring on the Wrong Scales
We forget this constantly. We measure ourselves by our bodies, our bank accounts, our productivity, and the approval of people who barely know us. And we come up short every time, because those are the wrong scales entirely. They were never designed to weigh a soul. A man can win on all of them and still feel worthless, because he is measuring an infinite thing with a cheap ruler.
So let me ask you a few honest questions. What if you could genuinely love yourself, your scars, your crooked features, your scrawny biceps, the hair you are always trying to remove? What if you could appreciate the simplest things, like the warmth of the walls in the room you are sitting in, or the way light bends around a corner? What if there were so much love in you that even in the moment someone offended you, you could forgive them right there in the act of being hurt?
Grander Than the Grand Canyon
What if you could see real divinity in ordinary people, and then extend that same belief to yourself? What if you accepted that you are no less remarkable than the sun, the great rivers, the endless beaches? Could you imagine actually believing you are grander than the Grand Canyon and greater than the Great Wall of China? Because if you could, you would finally experience the kind of happiness that does not depend on your next win.
You are made of something infinite and eternal. I am certain I am more than my body and my bills, and so are you. Maybe the answer to nearly everything is simply respect and appreciation. To revere the world, the people in it, and the immeasurable worth already sitting inside you, untouched and waiting. Stop trying to earn what you already are. The endless striving for proof is the very thing keeping you from feeling the worth that was there the whole time.