Fill your own cup first
Of all the muttonheaded egocentric inanities in all of the galaxies in all of the universe, this one pisses moronic 27 different ways — 28 if you tack on maudlin variations like “Fill your own cup first and let them fall in love with the overflow.” How do you not choke on the contradiction in that drippy bromide? How do you not Uber an ark to save yourself from the gushing peddling of narcissism as altruism?
Are there moments in life that require looking after ourselves, cutting ourselves a little slack? You bet. But this filling your own cup first is nothing but self-pity masquerading as self-care; infantile drivel that throttles the human spirit.
I offer these words from Mahatma Gandhi as an elixir: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Go ahead, drink it in.
