What she said.
Do I have value? It seems like such an obvious answer. All people have value. I am a people, therefore I have value. Is that it? Is my only value that value intrinsic to me as a member of the human race? Does having involuntary muscle activity, such as breathing or a heartbeat, give me value? Only for the purposes of science. I am worthy. I have immense value. My friends see my value. I am learning to see what they see. I have been telling this to myself - no, I have been reading it out loud to myself - for several weeks now. DJ and I worked this out as an affirmation I could accept as the truth. DJ reminds me to read it often and I put it as the login screen on my laptop. I was reading it every time I woke up my laptop - which was two to three times a day until I got my company laptop. Now I only open my laptop a couple times a week. Certainly not enough to ingrain a new truth. But the bigger problem was that even though I told DJ I could accept this as a truth, I lied. I'm not