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Save Yourself Before You Save Someone Else

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This is not about you being selfish.

This is about you trying to be your best to help yourself, and to eventually, help others.

Like me, you may have all the energy in the world to save your friends, and even strangers.

You invest so much thought, time, and energy in them.

Even if they can’t see or realize all of your efforts, you don’t care.

I get it.

Your heart is soft and warm.

You even forgive easily, because that is just who you are.

You understand humanity and that we are faulty, including yourself.

So you forgive, because you know you have done worse.

However, you also tend to forget.

You forget the harm and sadness others have caused you.

So you keep up with your same old good self

It gets old really fast, when you are constantly giving up all of your energy

And then trying to regain your strength back.

But this cycle gets hard when you aren’t completely healed.

When you give up all of your energy, while still trying to heal, you start hurting.

Save yourself first. Because in this world, don’t count on someone else trying to save you.

Not everybody is like you.

By the time you meet someone just like you – one who is willing to help you,

It might already be too late

For you.

You know, sometimes it’s good to be selfish and to think about your needs.

It keeps you alive.

Save yourself, before you save someone else.

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