Do it now.
Of all the people I know who have experienced depression, it is invariably the people who give the most who end up suffering. Love is like an energy inside us. Some people have an innate ability to give love – to extend themselves, and do the work which leads to happiness for someone else. So often those people give and give, and eventually the loving energy inside them runs lower – they often receive insufficient love in return. Eventually their giving natures drain their energy, and they collapse into a depression. The love must flow back as well as out. But we have no control over how much love we receive. We can only be aware of how much love we are giving to others, and to exercise self-discipline to make ourselves as loving as we can possibly be. If we were all to take this attitude of becoming totally giving, then the receiving of love will follow automatically.
We all have the capacity to give love. And we are all of us every day making choices throughout the day whether to exert ourselves for others, or to act in self-interest. Guilt arises when we look back knowing that we didn’t give love, when the spirit inside us tells us that we should have done. Now we know there is a risk of looking back in guilt, we are empowered to seize the day and do the loving in the here-and-now. When we look back knowing we gave love, we are fortunate to receive the additional bonus that we can like ourselves. Giving love is not done with the objective of liking ourselves, but it is a wonderful bonus. And we sleep sounder.
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