My son has asked me many times, “Who do you love more me or Sparky?” Sparky is our beautiful eight year old Labrador. We’ve had him since he was a puppy. Of course I always answered my son that I love him more than Sparky even though I adore Sparky. And then he would ask me a lot of times, “Who do you love more, me or you?” And to which I would always reply,”Well, I got to love me first so that I can
really love you.”
My first instinct was to say, “I love you more than me.” I mean, you got to love your kids more than yourself ,right? That’s because you
have told yourself to be selfless. But in reality I’ve always told my son that I have to love myself more because I have to have love in me first to be able to give love to him. I think I never really thought about it at the time when I said that. It always came out that way, and now I know it is true, because the more love you allow in yourself first, and it comes in as a gusher,then it gets to a point that it spills over and you become naturally selfless.
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