There was a girl who fell in love with a man. She really wanted his attention but he hardly noticed her at all.
She was going to counseling and she had low self esteem. Finally the man asked her to be his steady girlfriend. This was after she decided to give him clearer signals of her liking him.
She was very happy.
He rang her up for their first date, and she turned him down. In fact she turned down all his offers to go out and spend some time together.
Why?
She adored him. Her love was very strong and if given half the chance she would have been wonderful for him and he for her.
She was terrified of him rejecting her. She thought that once he got to know her that he would discover that she was inadequate and what she was really like, and he would be displeased with her and then reject her.
By refusing his love she made him move on, she made him reject her. She made her fears come true.
A low self-esteem can have us destroying opportunities before we get a chance to find out if the opportunity will make us truly happy. We can reject blessings because we don’t believe that we deserve them.
Rejection by other people can make us feel inadequate, unworthy and below other people. So we sometimes set up our own lives so that we avoid being rejected. By doing this we also destroy opportunities that come our way.
Confidence in ourself can have us making good life choices and meeting people without fears.
People who don’t believe in themselves don’t believe in opportunities for themselves.
People who avoid things can tell themselves lies to convince them that they are doing the right thing.
In the end though the simple fact is that they are frightened of rejection and being emotionally hurt, and they lose many opportunities that could have changed their life for the better.
Please believe that you are worthy of the blessings that come your way.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 7:49:22 AM.