Hey you, take care of your self!

I’m amazed sometimes that it took me 21 years before I learned how to take better care of myself.

To go to bed on time.
To drink water

To moisturize properly.
To eat right.
To take my vitamins.

My responsibilities are to take care of my works, my task, my thesis, and yet I wasn’t doing a very good job of taking care of myself.

I finally learned to go to bed and finish a task in the morning instead of staying up late and fooling myself into thinking I was being productive.

Why do we try to reward ourselves with the very things that aren’t good for us and that we have been trying to avoid?
I still don’t always get it right. 

I forget to eat lunch sometimes, I don't even have my breakfast in the morning..

I used to think taking care of myself was all about the outside of me. Looking good. My toes were always polished, my shirt must be neat, I spent a lot of time thinking about my hair. But I didn’t feel very good.

Now, in this season of life, taking care of myself is essential to survival. Most days I have no time to myself to start the morning quietly. Taking care of myself makes the difference between making it through the day or feeling miserable the whole time.

When free time is so precious, do I use it on something that will revive my spirits, or am I too beat to recognize when an activity is just “filler”?

Do you even remember which activities revive your spirits?

So here is how I’m spending my free time.