Me First!
When you soar with the eagles, you tend to have their vision too!
~ “Me First! “~
You are flying in a jet plane over the ocean, with your children. Suddenly the plane bounces and jerks and the Fasten Your Seatbelt light comes on. Over the loud speakers you begin to hear the Captain’s voice, garbled under a layer of static, when you feel the plane take what you think is a distinct plunge downward, a moment later the oxygen masks fall down in front of you. You see the panic on the faces around you, the stewardess’ and stewards are scrambling, the children, YOUR children, start to cry – what do you do?
Yep, this is one of those awful questions we all hate to answer. The reality of the answer is so different from what we feel is ‘right’. The correct answer is that you put the oxygen mask on YOURSELF first, so that you are better able to help your children. If, God forbid you started helping your children first, you may pass out from lack of oxygen before you can finish helping the rest of your children. But if you are taken care of first, then you are free to take care of others.
This is a drastic example of the “me first principle”. I know this principle rubs people the wrong way, because it is contra to everything most of us have been taught as children. “Share your toys …”, “… if there’s not enough to go around then no one can have any …”, “… good little boys and girls let their guests go first”. All your life you’ve been given messages that others come first. If you are to be considered a good person you must let old ladies sit in your seat on the bus, you must let the person with one item cut in front of you in line and all kinds of examples. Now of course some of this is fine; pretty mundane stuff. But when it comes to those things that count it should be all about “me first”. You cannot help another without making sure you are whole first, you cannot make another happy unless you are happy first, and you cannot love another without loving yourself first.
Bright blessing ~ Richard
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When you soar with the eagles, you tend to have their vision too!
~ “Me First! “~
You are flying in a jet plane over the ocean, with your children. Suddenly the plane bounces and jerks and the Fasten Your Seatbelt light comes on. Over the loud speakers you begin to hear the Captain’s voice, garbled under a layer of static, when you feel the plane take what you think is a distinct plunge downward, a moment later the oxygen masks fall down in front of you. You see the panic on the faces around you, the stewardess’ and stewards are scrambling, the children, YOUR children, start to cry – what do you do?
Yep, this is one of those awful questions we all hate to answer. The reality of the answer is so different from what we feel is ‘right’. The correct answer is that you put the oxygen mask on YOURSELF first, so that you are better able to help your children. If, God forbid you started helping your children first, you may pass out from lack of oxygen before you can finish helping the rest of your children. But if you are taken care of first, then you are free to take care of others.
This is a drastic example of the “me first principle”. I know this principle rubs people the wrong way, because it is contra to everything most of us have been taught as children. “Share your toys …”, “… if there’s not enough to go around then no one can have any …”, “… good little boys and girls let their guests go first”. All your life you’ve been given messages that others come first. If you are to be considered a good person you must let old ladies sit in your seat on the bus, you must let the person with one item cut in front of you in line and all kinds of examples. Now of course some of this is fine; pretty mundane stuff. But when it comes to those things that count it should be all about “me first”. You cannot help another without making sure you are whole first, you cannot make another happy unless you are happy first, and you cannot love another without loving yourself first.
Bright blessing ~ Richard
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