{"id":1043,"date":"2013-09-09T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T17:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2013-09-09T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T17:12:21","slug":"poem-taking-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/poem-taking-care\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Taking Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take care<\/span>
\nSteal it if you must<\/span><\/p>\n

There may well be an epidemic of people not taking good care of themselves. \u00a0This is often times due to an undue focus on other things and other people. \u00a0Of course, caring for others is a good thing. \u00a0It is a prevalent ideal to hold up others as more valuable than ourselves. \u00a0This can be a valuable spiritual exercise in many instances, to help overcome our own egocentricity and selfishness. \u00a0Still, the idea of valuing people is violated if we don’t value ourselves. \u00a0We need to strike\u00a0a balance of caring for self and others to achieve and maintain abundant care for all concerned. \u00a0If I am depleted by not taking care of myself, then I harm my ability to care for others. \u00a0You can’t give what you don’t have. \u00a0To achieve balance and equality in valuing people, we often times need to love and care for ourselves more, rather than loving and caring for others less. \u00a0By caring for ourselves, we empower and even leverage our ability to care for others. \u00a0To achieve the ideal of treating people equally, we need to include ourselves as a person worthy of equal treatment. \u00a0Plus, modelling a balanced approach to caring for all people equally, including ourselves, may very well be the best gift we can give one another.<\/p>\n

This poem is intentionally provocative to perhaps jolt someone who is not caring for themselves well into a better balance. \u00a0Acknowledging our own sacred worth may help center ourselves around our worthiness to receive adequate care. \u00a0Receiving adequate care is a human right on par with receiving our daily bread. \u00a0While at first glance, stealing some care for oneself may seem objectionable, it should receive at least as much compassion and empathy as a starving person stealing some bread in a world of abundance. \u00a0For we don’t live by bread alone…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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