Breaking down walls...

Today I finally began to break down the wall of negativity I surrounded myself with for so many years. I built it to protect myself from further pain and heartache. I built it to shelter myself from hatred, mistreatment, and those who chose to and continue to withhold their love from me. The wall was constructed out of self-hatred, inadequacy, fear, guilt, inferiority, and embarrassment, to name a few.  Piece by piece the wall came down as each brick, representing parts of my negative self image, was disintegrated into dust. I still have a lot of clean-up work to do. I want to reach a point where I don't feel ashamed of being beautiful, intellegent, successful or happy.