Spent your whole life taking care of others

If I was talking to you or a group of all of your friends today, this is what I would open up with. You spent your whole life taking care of others. Many of you would nod your head, and affirm this statement, proudly. Then I would say, now it is time to take care of you, self! Many of you would not nod your head in agreement, or look up at me, but would look down, and start to think. We all have done marvelous things in taking care of the people we love, or strangers we just met. But, we stopped taking care of self, and we thought that if we could take care of more people that somehow, someway self would be in better spot. Wrong, life does not work that way. Self needs to take care of self, then help others, and care for the one's we love and assist strangers when we can. Be honest with yourself, are you taking care of self? Some of us work our tails off at work, and help a lot of people. However, when we get home, do not help our self in a healthy way. We preach to our kids, families, spouses, significant others how it is important to be balanced, and have positive energy to make it through our day, but forget that self needs to be balanced, and work on self too! When people turn on us for their support, and a ear to listen to we feel validated. Self needs to validate self to be a healthy person. You already have the skills to take care of yourself, now use them! You spent your whole life taking care of others, now its self time. Just think how good you will feel when you are able to meet your own needs and still meet others needs at the same time, bonus! Stay in your health, stay in the moment.