Need: Daily Check
It’s been a year since I started to assess myself daily. I started during the pandemic. It was more of out of need not want. I checked my overall well being, from physical, mental, emotional states. I used Maslow’s hierarchy in checking too. I had to do this to keep my sanity in check during the crazy times of Covid, when everything was uncertain. Now I added a few more boxes to check daily like caring for others, goals, and empathy.
I realized how inward looking I have been most times. Partly, this was I think a defense mechanism also. I had to be Ok because I felt like at the end of the day, I could just really rely on myself. Caring for others is really either obligatory or secondary.
Covid’s greatest teaching, aside from washing hands, is that life is short. Given my faith, I believe that there is a life after this. It’s one I look forward to because I know my mama is there in heaven. And in the transition point of going there, I just wanna make sure that I also cared for other people, not just myself. So it’s ok to ensure you are ok. That’s the animal in us. But taking care of others is the God in us. I am yet to see how I bloom from that angle, because frankly, it takes effort.
