Choose Yourself Before It's Too Late Choose yourself before you wake up one day and realize you spent your entire life making sure everyone else felt loved while your own heart was starving. Before you become so used to neglecting yourself that pain starts feeling normal. Some of us were taught that love means sacrifice, endless patience, endless understanding, endless giving... even when it is destroying us slowly. So we stay. We tolerate. We overextend. We keep hoping that if we love harder, people will finally love us correctly back. But there is something heartbreaking about constantly pouring from a soul that has not been poured into in years. Something deeply painful about being everyone's safe place while secretly having nowhere to rest yourself. Love yourself enough to stop waiting for people to become who they have repeatedly shown you they are not. Love yourself enough to understand that your tenderness is not meant to be consumed by people who only show up when they need healing from wounds they keep reopening in you. Because the truth is, losing yourself while trying to keep others will wound you far deeper than losing them ever could.