Choose yourself

Joanna Murumba

Oct 31

I once had a lover who said I always they didn't understand how I loved them, yet, I always chose myself in the end.
No matter what happened, even if it hurt, I'd always choose to put myself first always.
He didn't understand how I could claim to love him, yet put him below me.
I think now I understand him.
I guess it's a little crazy to believe that someone loves you but they put you second or third.
But in a world of a million distractions per minute, putting yourself first, I think is the best way to survive.
Putting yourself first isnt as selfish as it sounds. Although there are extremes that are.
It means putting the things you love first
Putting you heart first
Putting your mental health first
Putting your healing first
Putting your friends first
Putting your family first
Putting all the things that make you, you first
It means pouring into yourself and into the things that makes your experience on this world a little more wholesome and wonderful
And in some ways it will seem selfish and people will say that you're self centered
But you aren't because you know what's important to you
And if you focus on the things that light up your life
It makes the experience of you to others
Much much better