Being Selfish
I now know there is a point and time in your life when you have to be selfish. It is not a good thing, but a necessary thing. It is weird to say, I know, but it is the truth. I have always thought of myself as a very giving person. When it comes to work, helping or money – if I have it then it is yours. However, as I have recently discovered, sometimes you have to say NO.
You work hard to provide a future for you and your family. Sometime circumstances creep in that threaten to take away that future. You have to make hard choices. You give a little and when that is not enough, you give more. But what happens when you have to give even more, give to a point that stretches you so thin you are not sure where it is going to come from? You have to become selfish. You have to say no. At the same time understand, that when you say no, it is ultimately going to hurt somebody else.
You can say “it’s nothing personal,” but deep down it’s all personal. Maybe not to the person it directly affects, but personal to you. Because if you don’t say no, it’s going to hurt you and your family.
This is the point where I am at right now. It sucks.