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Though there are self-care practitioners, influencers and life coaches who practise and encourage people to do self-care, we don't practise it ourselves until there is a severe push or introspection. The precursor to start a habit is always our own willingness to practise it. We should be fully consumed with the idea to be able to produce it in full force. You must have heard: buy first, pay later. Here too, you need to buy the idea of the habit first, but the difference is that once the habit is formed and embeded in your routine, you get paid by its multi-fold benefits.
A Baffling Question
My cousin and I had a conversation just recently, when he was in India. A chance question sent me on the lane of introspection. I was absently gazing at nothingness when he asked me, mainly because I was not able to produce a suitable reply. Firstly, I stared in disbelief, for the question was unusual and secondly, it made me look inward to seek an answer and put forth as a justified reply.
This story is from the September 2023 edition of Woman's Era.
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