Day 42: Being Selfish

This morning as I sat staring at the computer and my blog I sat overwhelmed with the events of the last 24 hours and the knowledge that what we have to think about for the next few weeks. As I sat trying to be optimistic and focusing on what needs to be done for everyone else in order to keep everything in our life running smoothly I was reminded by my mother-in-law (don't tell her that for once I am actually paying attention to something she is advising us....) that sometimes we need to be selfish. Although my mother-in-law's point about us needing to be selfish sometimes was as a result of her wanting us to be healthy enough to take care of them in their old age (eventually), its a task that we most definitely have a hard time doing.

As children we were always ingrained in the the head to not be selfish and to share with others, (it was even on our report cards in the words, "shares with others..") and so for some of us it is so difficult to take care of ourselves or sometimes to do things for ourselves. But it' something that we have to remember to do. We have to be selfish sometimes. We need to do good things for ourselves. We need to sometimes tell others no and not feel bad about it. We need to benefit ourselves sometimes. We just can't do it all the time.

Yes, its not always right to be selfish, but if we don't take care of ourselves at some point in our life, our life with go by so quickly we will regret not having done things for ourselves or become bitter at the fact we didn't care for ourselves. So today, I am going to be selfish. I am going to do what I need to do for myself in order to feel good and to improve my life. It's about me today. And sometimes you just have to do that and not feel guilty about it. If you have a problem with that today..well...too bad.