Dear readers,

All of you must be having your own reasons of believing in “The Secret”. Well, I too have a lesson to share with all of you, a lesson of life, of love, of loneliness, of togetherness and of love- Love for Oneself.

Since my childhood days, I have been reading this phrase “Love yourself first if you want others to love you”, but I never understood what it really means. Today, the only reason I am writing this testimonial is because I have understood what it really means. I had a disturbing childhood because of which I grew up depressed and lonely. I never learned how to love myself and others.

Living away from home with my friends for my higher education helped me in realizing the beauty of this world and sharing and caring. But I still could never love myself. I am tall (5.6 feet), slim, fair, pretty and smart looking girl. I am a painter, singer, dancer, a good cook, hard working and knows how to take care of myself and my friends. But inspite of all these qualities in me I kept comparing myself to others and could never see how beautiful my own life is. There was no appreciation in me – least of gratitude.

A year and a half back, a guy came into my life. He approached me for a friendship and then started the most beautiful relationship of my life. We were always together either on phone or giving company to each other. I was very happy to have him….I felt as if my life has turned into a fairy tale. But because of my own negative thoughts and over-expectations, I could never be happy with him. I wanted him to show me his love never realizing that first I had to accept myself and him the way we are. Gradually he drifted away from me and after a year and a half, the day came when he said that he doesn’t want any connections with me.

Then enters “The Secret” into my life and it didn’t take me long to understand why my life had been so rough and rocky. Today when I look back my relationship with my friend, I can feel the love that he gave me all the time, which because of my over-expectations could never feel that time. He took care of me when I was sick, made me laugh when I was sad, cooked for me when I was hungry and tired, played flute for me when I was in a sour mood (he plays flute), took me for a bike ride…. name a thing and he did for me. He never said that he loves me but unintentionally he was giving me all the love that I had always imagined and longed for. And I could not feel that love because I did not love myself.

Today my friend is not with me but because of him I have realized the greatest happiness in this world – I have learned to love myself! Although we are not so close now but I still feel the love that he gave me. And I believe my realization will bring him back to me just like he came to me the very first day, only for my friendship. Expectations can kill relationships but we can always feel the love within ourselves. I am following the teachings of The Secret religiously and my requests have always been manifested. I am eagerly waiting and preparing myself for the day when my friend will come back to me with the same warm smile and a hug.

I want to take this opportunity to thank Rhonda Byrne and all the people associated with The Secret directly or indirectly for making me realize my beauty again and for all those beautiful feelings which keeps me moving everyday towards my success and my love. Thank You Lord for all that I have today, and for bringing me into this wonderful world.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!