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#24211: You can fight another day
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It is okay to be tired. To feel out of breath and out of sorts. For some, it even gets to the extreme of, “Maybe I am the only one this is affecting, and I cannot understand anymore.” You have possibly had a crazy month, a bad week, or even the last couple of days that have been filled with so much anxiety and hidden pains. It is okay to feel that way sometimes. What is not okay is making these experiences the complete definitions of your person or building an identity out of the phase that you are in. Pardon my use of Christian parlance, “you have tabernacled” so much on this tiredness that it is difficult to see a way out, or, you don’t even know if you should fight anymore. I guess I am saying it is human to feel down, but it is also humanely divine to pick yourself up and not stay down when you get those Gbas Gbos. Yeah, that, when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade stuff, is a valid saying on most days. So, yeah, it is okay to be tired, but it is also okay to fight again. Some battles will take more than one fight to win, and since you are still here, you can win on another day. - O'gbemiro |
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