Self-esteem is how you feel about yourself as a person. Those with high self-esteem believe that they are adequate, strong and worthy of a good life, while those with low self esteem feel inadequate and worthless. Low self-esteem can develop in childhood and continue through adulthood, causing great emotional pain.
Many people base their self-esteem on external factors, such as how much money they earn, how much they weigh and whether people like and appreciate them. This is wrong because you become vulnerable and worthless once that external variable ends.
Low self-esteem is something that takes a gradual but steady process to develop. It starts early in life (most times from infancy). Show me a man who has low self-esteem and I will show you a child who grew up rejected and unloved.
Africa is one continent that has lots of men with very low self-esteem. This is mainly because of the lack of exposure of most parents. Many potentially great minds have been destroyed simply because the immediate families, right from infancy made them see themselves as second class citizens of the world.
Being black doesn’t make you a second class citizen. I always feel bad with the way foreign embassies treat Africans simply because we have made them believe we can’t survive without them. A lot of people don’t even get the visa at the end of the day because they can’t look
