Greetings, gremlins! It's time once again for our weekly card pull!

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All right. Now for the card for the week.

Since we hadn't seen it in such a long time, I decided to bring the Believe in Your Own Magic Oracle Deck back out. I like this deck a lot for the simplicity and the cozy vibes it gives me.

Our card this week is called Mural, and it comes with a reminder that we're allowed to be our own first priority.

Now, I don't know about all of you, but sometimes, I genuinely forget that. Sometimes, I give so much of myself to other people that I forget about myself. This is despite learning a lesson I came to learn only when I started taking on a healer role in MMOs.

What was that lesson?

"I'm allowed to take a second to heal myself because if my health bar goes to zero hit points, everyone else's will, too."

If we put this in more of a real-world context, people in general have invisible bars of energy that get depleted throughout the day. Each task or interaction depletes that energy bar as the day goes on. Some people have a larger bar to work with than others. Sometimes that bar gets depleted by the end of the day. Some people run with the bar completely empty for several days at a time. But if you don't replenish that invisible energy bar, you'll have nothing left to give to the tasks you need to do or to the people around you.

Remember that it's okay to be a little selfish. You're allowed to take some time to put yourself first, especially if you're the sort of person who tries to meet the demands of everyone around them. Take some time this week to step back and make sure you're okay.

You're allowed to do that, you know.

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