Self Esteem is pivotal to our psychological survival and without some self-esteem, life will seem painful, with many basic needs going unmet.
What makes human beings different from other animals is our ability to be self-aware. This would assist us in forming an identity with some value and meaning. The fortunate thing about this is that you can define yourself however you like and if you don’t care for that identity, you can change it. When there is the ability to change the identity you’ve created for yourself, there is also the human capacity for more judgement too. Human beings have the capacity to not only judge ourselves harshly at times but to dismiss certain parts of yourself can considerably harmful to your self-worth that give you life.
