On Practicing Kindness With Oneself

Emad Abdulrahim
5 min readDec 26, 2017

It’s ironic how we can be kind to other people but ruthlessly harsh on ourselves. We often don’t show ourselves the same kindness we readily show other people; I’m especially guilty of this.

I’ve been contemplating about why I do that. Why do I encourage other people’s ideas and then condemn my own? I noticed this when I was chatting with a girl I met on an Uber ride. During our brief chat, I learned…

--

--