You are Important

Value: Truth 

Sub-Value: Responsibility for self 

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A cobbler lived in a large village, and he was the only cobbler in town, so he was responsible for repairing the boots of everybody else.

However, he didn’t have time to repair his own boots. This wasn’t a problem at first, but over time, his boots began to deteriorate and fall apart.

While he worked feverishly on the boots of everyone else, his feet got blisters, and he started to limp. His customers started to worry about him, but he reassured them that everything was alright.

However, after a few years, the cobbler’s feet were so injured that he could no longer work and no one’s boots got repaired. As a consequence, soon the entire town started to limp in pain, all because the cobbler never took the time to repair his own boots.

This simple principle is so often disregarded that if you are in a responsible position and are one of the important links in the group’s survival chain and if you do not look after yourself, after a while you’ll be no good to anyone else either. Your best intentions will mean nothing and you’ll be unable to do what you’re meant to do. This goes for leaders, social workers, teachers, even parents, breadwinners, homemakers, and “daughter-in-laws”

Learning

If you do not take the time to care for yourself, no one else will. So, start taking care of your health both physical and mental so that you can be happy and help others too.

Source: https://twitter.com/diaryofa9jagirl/status/1114224621560246273