We cannot love others from an empty cup.
Why do you always go to the library? Is the question I often received.
This place is quiet. No chaos. Or at least people know the rules that they need to keep their business low. I mean have you ever sit beside someone at the library and amazed by how he/she tried to put things super slowly on the table?
It’s quite that you could even hear people flipping through their books. Zipping their bag or even the pencil case?
God knows the chaos in their heart or mind and yet they have to be as quiet as they can be.
This place is like my comfort place.
Growing up, I never heard my parents argue. Well maybe towards the final year of their life. But definitely not before that. I hated when people argue or fighting. It brings shiver down to my spine and heck, it terrifies me.
So yes. This place gives me buffer from the chaos house.
In order for me to be there for sister, I have to keep my sanity intact. I wouldn't be able to think let alone act when my head is messed up.
And no, it's not selfish to love yourself first.