Honor Thy Self

Honor Thy Self

“Sunlight was never so bitter as it was today.“

There it is, the first sentence of fiction I’ve written all year and I wrote it today, well today as of the writing of this blog you may be reading this days or years later(I hope).

But what’s the “point” how does this relate to the title of this blog, me, or you?

Well I commonly tell one of my friends, “I want you to keep the promises you make to yourself.” Apt, I think with many of us having made New Years resolutions and promised to ourselves we would, loose weight, or call our family more, or whatever we felt strongly about when we decided to make a pact with ourselves.

That is a powerful thing, to make a pact with yourself, we know it is because we feel so terrible when we break them. I don’t know what promises you’ve made it yourself but I know they were important ones and as I tell my friend I tell you, “I want you to keep the promises you make to yourself.”

And because I am a flawed, flawed individual I need to cast that into a mirror and hurl it at myself. I promised, to me, that I would write more, even if it was write poorly, that I would write more so there it is. Me keeping my promise and making it public so it’s harder for me to hide from it if I don’t do it. That sentence, those nine words are the beginning of me honoring myself. treating me like someone I care enough not to lie to.

I don’t know how much work I will get done, or how much of it you will see, but I know if I keep my promise it will be more so that’s what I aim to do.

I hope you can do the same, I hope it helps you, and I thank you for indulging me in this bit of vulnerability.

Thank you and God bless;

~S. Wallace