Healthy Life

I woke up a little shaky this morning, not so much trembling, just shaky. Maybe it’s just my nerve endings, I don’t know. But it feels like it’s starting from deep within my belly and working its way out. Weird. Anyway, I read a post from a woman I went to school with back from old Bloomingdale on bus 237. She mentioned B’dale had gotten a donut shop and posted a review of the business. Thinking it was kinda funny that Bloomingdale 31302 would be recognized for a donut shop of all things. I replied to the post the with, “B’dale was now on the map”.
 
I do find myself thinking more my past of late. Not so much to glorify it, as much as, recognizing whether I like it or not, it’s a part of me. Not to sound too sentimental, I used to look at my youth through a lens of insecurity and disappointment. My mind was too hyper-focused on the bullying and the name calling to ever really enjoy it. Not trying to dive too deep into the psychobabble of it all. I suppose more than anything, I just learned to accept that part of myself and to love myself anyway. And isn’t that all we can do?
 
While I don’t subscribe so much to the doctrines of Milton Memorial Baptist Church, or Faulkville Baptist Church, or even of Westview Assemblies of God anymore. I do see the value of forgiveness, especially to oneself. For so long I was told to be selfless, to put the value of others above my own. And that I did, but at the near destruction of my own self. See what I am saying? Life has no value if you don’t place any value on yourself. So feel free to love yourself and feel free to love others just as much. That is one of the keys to a healthy life.  
 
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