You can’t pour from an empty cup.
You can’t give from an empty vessel.
You can’t help with a tired mind.
So don’t be the one with all the solutions.
Don’t be the friend who is forever available.
Don’t be the one with perfectly chosen words.
You can’t cheer another from a heart that is anything but cheerful.
You can’t calm someone else when a storm rages in your own mind.
Don’t make that effort.
Don’t put so much thought that you’re left with nothing but nonchalance.
Stop.
Save thyself from thyself for thyself.
It’s not a phase. It’s a lesson.
And life has a way of repeating itself
until the lesson is learnt, for good.