When You Earn Your Own Respect, You Will Never Be Alone, For You Will Always Have Yourself

"When You Earn Your Own Respect, You Will Never Be Alone,
For You Will Always Have Yourself." - David Julio Wang

I have never earned my own respect,
so I desperately hope to be accepted by others...

But, I can never shake the desire to genuinely like myself,
and the only way I can do that is to be genuinely myself with everyone,
for better or for worse,
but,
at least I'll have myself.