I was having a discussion with my parents today and the following statements came up:

You’re perfectly capable. You have ten fingers and ten toes. In fact, you’re above average in a lot of ways. You’re very bright. You’re above average intellectually and have above average skills, and yet your intellect is trying to process your self worth, and you’re accepting some lies that are mixed with some truths. In your heart and in your spirit you know you have value, but you’re processing mistakes and failures in your mind and you’re assigning your self esteem and your worth to these mistakes and failures and that’s not right.

They asked me if I had anything to say about that.

I did.

“Can you write that down?”