Pour out of an empty container | Deeper | Post 5

You promise to love others when you do not genuinely love yourself. You commit to helping others yet cannot commit to helping yourself.

Yet you wonder why you often feel unappreciated and empty at the end of it all.

How can you pour out what you do not possess?

I've always wanted to start my own project; you know, like do something that I could say 'This is my baby!'

But doing something of your own is scary - you can't blame anyone else for the mess-ups, and it requires you to come face-to-face with the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

If I were to discover something I don't like about a lover then I have the choice to walk away, but I discover something I don't like about myself then I need to face it every day of my life.

But after all the failed attempts to pour into another's cup, it soon becomes apparent that perhaps the actual solution is that we first need to pour into ourselves.