Your benevolent Chief in all her glory. 📸: @hafsi_hafeedoh on IG. "Choose  yourself, twice". This journey to self discovery is a tough one. In life, people speak of how to treat others, how to be a kind person to them but rarely ever remind you to extend the same grace to yourself.  For example, look at me. I recently evaluated and realized that how a lot of people treated me was only an extension of how I treated myself. I almost never cut myself any slack, at the slightest mistake I'm quick to call myself names, never extending any iota of grace as I would to any other person.  This behavior is toxic, and coming to terms with it was hard.  I found out that I disrespected myself in many ways.  From watering down my skills and achievements just to make others comfortable, To calling myself names, To blaming myself for little mistakes and even situations I had no control over.  By doing these things I indirectly sent signals to people that it is okay to water down my abil

  Those who know death know it doesn't kill. The thing that kills is greater than us all, This thing's power flows from  within our minds, Just like bile and spreads until it envelopes us, It's essence is to somehow find its way into our existence.  Nobody speaks of how it kills, Or how destructive it is because we are always blindsided by it's beauty, As though beauty ever overshadows  darkness. The thing that kills is in you, In us all, And we live everyday,  Fighting to kill it first. I'm trying my hands on short poetry 🙈. I have decided to take risks here.  Till next time, Your Chief.