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I take a deep breath and close my eyes. In my mind I summon an image of myself as a child. My muscles relax. I open my eyes and see her sitting on the chair across from me. I smile and she flashes a toothy smile back at me.

A frustrating side effect of low self-esteem is the constant second-guessing. When you lack self-confidence, you spend a lot of time second-guessing everything.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, why is it that I feel so small? I was a teenager when I used this well-known mantra to write my own version. Feeling comfortable in my own skin was a foreign concept to me. If only I had the ability to slither out of my too-tight skin and re-create myself into a better version.

No, I’m not talking about sniffing people’s butts, or eating poo. I don’t mean I’d like to abandon my personal hygiene and eat kibbles every night for dinner. What I mean is, I don’t want to be a dog, but live like a dog. As well as brightening up our lives, they also provide many valuable lessons on how to live and love.

Sometimes the voice in your heart and mind don’t always work in harmony. Your heart wants one thing but the voice in your mind fights against it.

The weather is quite an appropriate metaphor for life. Sometimes life is like sunshine - it warms your soul, happiness radiates from you and your smile is bright. You feel like you could conquer the world. All is as it should be. The sky is clear and so is your mind.

Sometimes the path we travel is not necessarily the path we want to go down. Maybe we started down our own track, but then lost sight of where we were going. Our doubts trip us up; we stumble on other people’s expectations.

Hope. Love. Kindness. Three magical qualities that the world needs more of. Imagine for a moment the kind of world that has these three things in abundance.

How many times have the words on your heart been left unsaid? Did it leave you with an ache of disappointment? The regret hurts - knowing that you had your chance to speak but the words got caught on your tongue. The moment passed and then it was too late. Maybe you were left with a feeling of heaviness inside. Those words you swallowed now stuck, sitting heavy in your chest.

I wonder how many of us put on a mask before we leave the safe walls of our house? How many of us close the door and leave our true self behind? Do we all, consciously or unconsciously, put on our mask as we get ready to face the world and prepare to become a different version of ourselves? Are we all just playing a part, our lives one big performance? Or are there people out there who are so confident in who they are that the only part they have to play is themselves?