You have spent your life thinking of others. Noticing their needs. Adjusting your behaviour. Absorbing their emotions. But who is thinking of you? Omoiyari toward yourself means directing the same quality of attention inward — noticing your own exhaustion before it becomes collapse, acknowledging your own needs before they become crises, treating yourself with the same consideration you routinely offer everyone else.

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