Self-care Is Not Selfish, It’s The Right Thing To Do
by Priscilla Nnaka It’s been happening all the time. I see it often. I feel it when I see a woman who does not look after herself. She looks after everyone but herself. She believes it's a sacrifice she has to keep making. She believes it will be selfish of her to take care of herself first, like having an “alone” time with a good book to read and a cup of her favorite drink/tea, spending time with the girls to do just girl stuff, serving herself food before her husband and children, taking a warm and perfumed bath on weekends all by herself, taking a day off to relax, or taking the long-overdue, well-deserved vacation from any kind of work, especially housework. For women who sacrifice so much of self for others, there’s always a holo look in their eyes, a faraway look of regret. But they’ll rather die than admit it to anyone or even to themselves for that matter, that they need rest for a while from all the housework. Darren is my friend, she got married at age 18 when she...