Take care of yourself with tenderness

 

 Take care of yourself. Why should you? Keep yourself well. Why should you? Listen, pay attention to what I'm saying...
 Just as you think about keeping everyone around you happy, keep in mind the need to keep yourself well too. Don't forget this, even by mistake. Even if you can't please some people while trying to keep yourself well, still keep yourself well. If you don't take care of yourself, one day you won't be able to take care of anyone else.
  
 What you've achieved, people will see and applaud. Take time to look at it yourself too, remember to give yourself a little round of applause, how about that? People become tremendously happy over very small things. Whatever you've been able to do or can do, however small it may be, it's your doing, isn't it? Learn to celebrate. If you can't even do this much, how will you survive, tell me? Living isn't easy—you have to make living easy.
  
 When you see a deadline in front of you, it feels very frightening, doesn't it? Of course it does, everyone feels that way. Even those who set that deadline know these things. Stop once in a while, take a deep breath. If you exhaust all your breath, how will you run? Give yourself a little time, hold your coffee mug and look outside for a moment—the sky is so beautiful. You'll find fragments of clouds in the gaps between the blue. It will feel good to see.
  
 You'll often find a great commotion around you. That's just how it is! We're human, so it stays that way. Around calm people, restless people make a commotion. It's a game they play. Will everything be according to your heart's desire? It won't! We have to work accepting just that much. Keep yourself a little removed from all that noise, arrange your thoughts, and search very carefully for where to go and what to do to find a little peace. If you don't find peace in life, what good would it do even if you got the whole world, tell me? Remember, there's nothing higher than peace in this life. People cry when they don't get love, but they don't die; when they don't get peace, they truly die on their own one day.
  
 Just as you listen to those you like; let those who like you also listen to your words. You'll see, it feels good. Speak and listen with your heart poured out completely. Otherwise your breath will get stuck! People don't easily survive in such suffocating light and air.
  
 Not every day will be yours. You won't be able to hit sixes every day—sometimes you'll have to return out for zero runs too. Still, keep playing. Don't you understand that stepping away from the game is what losing means? Learn to embrace defeat too. If you don't learn, you'll have to cry a lot. Do people always win? Does a game where you keep winning and winning ever attract you? Think about it! A good player is one who knows how to accept their bad days easily too. If you keep feeling bad thinking about the day that wasn't yours, how will you see the good days?
  
 Not everyone will like you—accept it. No one except a certain devil can be everyone's favorite. Remember, what you think about yourself is much more important than what others think about you. Use this to your advantage. If you want to use it, form a clear understanding about yourself. Don't pay attention to any wrong ideas or false self-satisfaction. Those things will destroy you. If you must be hurt, don't be hurt by others' blows—be hurt by your own. Keep shaping yourself by continuously striking yourself. You'll see, living doesn't feel so bad anymore!