I want you to see something.
My mother found this on her window shield a few years ago randomly. I have kept it for years. At first I was astonished by how many of those needs seemed superfluous, even luxurious. Don’t allow yourself to live without, in both what you demand for yourself and what you give to others. With each day that’s passed since first holding this in my hands, I have understood better in small, nearly imperceptible ways how deeply impoverished we so often allow ourselves to become.
This is the only time I will ever use this concept in the affirmative, because it could be the only instance in which it applies: you deserve every single one of these. You do. Perhaps rationally you might agree; now the trick is to massage it so deeply into your psyche that you do not just agree, but believe.
The only way to answer this is by saying to the universe, “I’m right on top of that, Rose.”
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