Remember a candle's fire is only just a flame

How can somebody love you if you are not even sure if you love yourself? Isn't it really interesting when you think about it? I mean, love? How does it help us and our species to survive? Wouldn't it be better to not love somebody and then have children with a lot of different people to extend the gene pool? That is just a crazy thought or maybe not so crazy, isn't that how most animals do?

Anyway. That was really weird, I know. But I was thinking. When people give me compliments, tell me I look nice or whatever it might be, how come that I can never believe it? I usually think that I can "take" a compliment but in the back of my head I think otherwise. I can't picture myself the way the compliment might picture me. I have a feeling that a lot of people feel the same way. Why are we always so insecure when it comes down to ourselves? Again, I don't understand how anyone can love me when I don't see my own beauty, only my flaws. 

Maybe it is time to focus my energy and put it were I can use it for my own good. From now on, I will start believing what compliments I might get, I won't be so self conscious. So, my conclusion: We don't see the beauty in ourselves that we see in others. But when thinking about it, who are the others if they aren't just a reflection of ourselves?