Everything happens for a Reason

for quite a long time, on several occasions, i've always had people telling me that,

"unless you love yourself, you can never truely love others"

and i always used to think ,

"huh? wth"

i'll show some sign of agreement and acknowledgement but i never understood why.

what does me loving myself, have to do with me loving others?

i could hate myself and still love others, i could see ugliness in myself yet still see the beauty in others, i could be pessimistic yet still feel optimistic about others.

one sentence was split up to two parts that i felt were never gonna cross paths,

never going to have any link to each other.

until today or yesterday that is,

now i truely understand why.