Someone once asked...

“Why do I feel guilty whenever I choose myself?”

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Someone answered with kindness...

A mother once told me she felt selfish taking one hour a week for herself. One hour, out of a hundred and sixteen. I asked her what she taught her children by disappearing entirely into everyone else's needs. She hadn't thought of it that way — that self-neglect isn't a gift you give others, it's a debt you eventually make them pay, in worry, in guilt, in a model of love that has no room for rest. Choosing yourself sometimes isn't the opposite of love. It's what keeps you able to love at all.

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Another soul answered...

bc u are used to putting other ppl first

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Another soul answered...

you are an empathetic person so its normal to not feel great when you put yourself first but it is an important thing to do

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Another soul answered...

I'm not sure, but don't be. You deserve to choose yourself. Love, A stranger

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