Pop Quiz: When the steward/ess prepares you for flight and explains about oxygen masks, who should you put the mask on first if you have a child? Your child or yourself?
Most people instinctively say their child. However, the answer is "yourself". Why? Because if you don't take care of yourself you aren't strong enough to take care of others! However, the answer "my child first" is a good indication of how people tend to think of strength: Sacrificing themselves or enduring hardships without caring for themselves.
What did you answer? How many times have you felt yourself challenged and found yourself saying "If I was strong, I would be able to deal with this?" Strength is the courage to recognize our own weaknesses and being able to say "I need a break!". So take a moment each day to do something for yourself: Relax, breathe, take a walk, listen to some music, write in a diary, sweat out some tension, anything that momentarily relieves the burden which otherwise slowly but surely saps your strength. Remember the example of the frog that sits in water that is slowly brought to a boil. He stays in the water since he adapts to the slowly increasing heat, until he dies. Nobody is a Superman!
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