We are warm blooded creatures. Unlike fish and reptiles, we can produce our own heat and warmth. We don’t need to rely on the fevered exterior of the world to bring us our own strength, we can produce our strength from within. And while the warmth of a heater or the radiation of the sun may please our soul, the flame in our hearts nourishes us like no outside force can. I would always prefer to have a full belly in cold surroundings, then be hungry while in a warm climate. Because with that full belly in me I can find my own love and my own admiration that hugs me closer than any soul could. My own vitality pulses in the heated convection of my own blood. The orange tones of life's passions start as sugars stirred in the essence of myself. To create your own energy is to be warm blooded, to be enriched, to be alive with the force of life itself.
Maintaining your own fire may take more effort, but it's always worth it. For the flame that comes from within will always feel more enriching than the flame that comes from foreign origins. To love yourself is to stoke that fire, love yourself from the inside-out, that's what I say. It’s all within our capabilities, maybe some easier than others, nonetheless in all of us is a pilot light waiting to be fueled, waiting not for someone to say they love us, but for us to say we love ourselves.
Prado Museum, Allegory of Charity, Prado Museum archives, accessed on 29th January 2023, <https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/allegory-of-charity/95d3d5cc-4af1-4c0d-b03c-a9e1c1e6481f>
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