All my life — yes, all my life — I’ve done things for others, deferring me, mine, and I.\u00a0 That’s changing.\u00a0 Now.\u00a0 Now I am living the rest of my life, not for me, but as me, caring for myself and my expressions as thoroughly and meticulously, with as much dedication and as much effort, as I have expended on everyone else’s projects, desires, dreams.\u00a0 Now my dreams count…for me.\u00a0 And it’s about time, too.\u00a0 I’m running out of life, out of time. (No, I’m not planning on kicking the bucket, but, often, one doesn’t get to plan these things, you know.\u00a0\u00a0I could be\u00a0killed by lightning or swept off by a tornado\u00a0(Yes, we have them in Sandpoint.).\u00a0 I could be hit by a truck (Why are they going 55 in a 25 zone?).\u00a0 I could be assaulted by a grizzly bear while hiking.\u00a0 (I’m an alpha, and grizzlies know it…and don’t like it.)<\/p>\n
So, now I do me.\u00a0 And you and yours come second, unless it’s life-threatening.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Sound like the “Me First” syndrome?\u00a0 Hardly.\u00a0 I’ve spent my ENTIRE life up till now putting all of you first.\u00a0 I deserve some time for me now.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All my life — yes, all my life — I’ve done things for others, deferring me, mine, and I.\u00a0 That’s changing.\u00a0 Now.\u00a0 Now I am living the rest of my life, not for me, but as me, caring for myself and my expressions as thoroughly and meticulously, with as much dedication and as much effort, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3855,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/3855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}