30 things that I love about myself

As an act of self love this month when I turned 30 I put myself the task to write down 30 things I love about myself. So here we go. It was not easy, but it was not that hard either. There is so much to love about myself, much more than I thought.

My first ever skydive on my 30th birthday along the coast of Santa Cruz. Nothing like being terrified and jumping anyway #courage.

1. I love that I am such a passionate person. I give my whole being to my passions.

2. I love that I try to be intentional and purposeful all the time even though it is exhausting sometimes.

3. I love that I am silly. I make noises, jokes that are downright weird and I love it.

4. I love that I love books and reading.

5. I love that I love to learn and how my curiosity drives me to new and different experiences

6. I love that I love adventure, exploring, going on expeditions outside and inside.

7. I love that I don’t expect myself to be all done up all the time. I leave it for whenever I really feel like it. All my makeup fits into a tiny drawer in a dresser and gets use a few times a year.

8. I love that I love nature, trees plants flowers — their energy and presence nurtures me.

9. I love that I love animals and squeal when I see them. Even a squirrel on a tree gets me excited.

10. I love that I don’t get sarcasm as much. I love that I pronounce things wrong and don’t get embarrassed about it either. I am a simpleton in that way.

11. I love that I love puns. Even really bad ones.

12. I love that I devote and invest in the relationships that matter to me, by prioritizing them and being there for them without expecting (as much as I can) in return.

13. I love that I like to read the National Geographic Magazine front to back cover.

14. I love that I enjoy cooking for others.

15. I love that I am a primordial feminist, having lifted the blinds of patriarchal culture and mainstream feminism — a by-product of being raised a woman in India and finding my freedom in the United States.

16. I love that I hate small talk.

17. I love that I am an ambivert, I can spend hours, days with just me and my thoughts for company. I can also be the life of a gathering easily.

18. I love that I try, fail but keep trying to live in alignment with my values of a sustainable and carbon-neutral lifestyle.

19. I love my sense of style and fashion.

20. I love my eyes.

21. I love when I laugh/guffaw at my own thoughts alone in my room.

22. I love that I can on most days coach myself out of panic, stress and anxiety, self-doubt.

23. I love that I value experiences and relationships more than things. Even though I tend to hoard things hoping to make use of them someday.

24. I love that I make space for my emotions and value the process of parsing them out as a way to be my best self.

25. I love that I sing very loudly when I’m in a deep workflow even if I don’t know the words to the song.

26. I love that I cry when I see a stranger in pain or suffering within or physically — this can happen while watching movies, shows, walking on the streets, etc.

27. I love that I am comfortable, no actually cozy in silence.

28. I love the way I dance, the inhibited way my body moves to music instinctively.

29. I love all my imperfections and brokenness. I love all my bruises and pains.

30. I love that at the deepest core of my being (even if I don’t feel it every day) I know I am a goddess.