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                               HOW TO TAKE CARE OF

                                               YOURSELF?


                                                     By Sunidhi Singh


                                                                 It’s high time that we start taking care
                                                                 of  ourselves,  being  ourselves  and
                                                                 creating  a  world  that  we  have  been
                                                                 dreaming  of  since  the  day  that  we
                                                                 don’t even remember.

                                                                 The  pandemic,  right  now,  has  given
                                                                 us  just  the  opportunity,  an  awesome
                                                                 opportunity  of  knowing  ourselves,
                                                                 living for ourselves and consequently
                                                                 living  for  others.  We  have  to
                                                                 understand that it is only through us
                                                                 that  the  world  exists.  It  functions
                                                                 because we do.

                                                                 In order to take care of that world, we
                    Taking care? Of ourselves?? What’s
                                                                 have  to  take  care  of  ourselves  first
                    that???                                      because  each  and  every  one  of  us
                    These  questions  seem  a  little  too       matters  and  contributes  in  our  own
                    dramatic but stand true in the present       unique way.
                    day  scenario.  All  of  us  are  so  much   So, how do we take care of ourselves?
                    busy  in  earning  money,  buying
                                                                 Just  start  by  making  peace  with  our
                    luxuries,    looking    for     others’
                                                                 past  because  the  past  is  that
                    validation,  living  up  to  everyone’s
                                                                 invaluable book of experiences which
                    expectations  and  keeping  others           has guided us all along to the present.
                    happy  that  we  have  forgotten  our        Don’t  carry  past.  It  is  important  to
                    own self.
                                                                 understand  that  everything  in  our
                    Being  ourselves  is  something  that        lives happens for a reason and we get
                    many  of  us  left  behind  in  our          to  learn  from  the  silliest  of
                    childhood when we didn’t care about          circumstances. We must learn, let go
                    what  anyone  thought  of  us.  As  we       and move on.
                    grew  up,  we  started  living  for
                                                                 A  person’s  personality  is  a  complex
                    validations  from  our  family,  friends,
                                                                 mixture of numerous things. There is
                    acquaintances  and  all  the  people         no one personality that can be called
                    surrounding us except our own inner          perfect.  Accepting  our  self.  Accept
                    voice  which  we  never  really  thought
                                                                 our self for all your goods and vices.
                    of giving the value that it deserves.
                                                                 This  does  not  mean  that  we  stop






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