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I did a spring clean for my living room today and wow, I'm feeling good about the little changes, I feel like my life just leveled up at zero cost (laughing in silently). It's the chance to do these things for self, not by anyone else, not for anyone else but me, that make me appreciate how uplifting a self care routine is and just how we all need to take time to tend to ourselves.
Yesterday, I discovered and was reading a blog by an interesting young mind called The Kevman Express, courtesy of the WINTERABC2021 blogging month that's been organised by @Afrobloggers. I am also participating all month of June, exciting but also proof of discipline, I tell you! Well, he was pointing out a sad tale of a beautiful young lady who decided that ending her life was her best option yet. Surely to get to that point, she must have been so fatigued with the montony and strife of this world, such a loss for us all, whether you knew her or not. Kevman Express continued to point out how for so long, we have waited on the outside world to help us get better when our mental and emotional health is under attack but unfortunately, no, little or invalid help is usually offered so now the counter approach should change, we should try to help ourselves from within, look for our goodness within and amplify it, so it eventually exudes to help us deal with the fast life on the outside. Surely this is the advocacy we need, a more lasting solution that we all should embark on, after all, they say we are all mad, just at varying levels. Rest in Peace, Natasha♥️.
Let's talk about this Covid devil for a bit, it came and was a big hit, only in the worst of ways, we had lockdowns, full, partial, pseudo, all kinds really!! This, although with fear, rested us, it got us to listen to ourselves, discover and take care of ourselves. After the first lockdown every country experienced was lifted, we all went hastily to getting things done, catch up game became the new hit, there was now speedy Rose, speedy Ivan, speedy Irene everywhere. We were back to forgetting ourselves and inner needs as our time was now re-dedicated to chasing!
Chasing what? Money, social media followers, education, partners, visas and so many more. All this while, Covid-19 was just having a little vacation, letting us think we can be lax as it became more violent and got meaner! Our speedy selves sent us right backwards because now the second wave is here, eating the life out of many, destructing progress, skyrocketing suicide and shuttering dreams that were in sight for a moment. We forgot to do what mother Earth had taught us through the very first Covid attack, to pause and take better care of our inner man and really do good by our bodies.
I am using this pen to stand in for me and paper to stand in for advocacy for you to pause every once in a while and put yourself first, feed yourself, nourish your elements and let mother Earth favour you. Don't forget to mask up, bask in the warm sun, drink your ginger ale and rosemary water and take time out to really breathe.
Speed does not always carry you forward.
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