I moved my alarm back by ten minutes and felt irrationally emotional about it

Dear Delyara, Ten minutes should not feel like a love language. But today it did. Maybe because I rarely give myself anything small unless I can justify it properly. And those ten minutes were not earned through accomplishment or granted by someone else or disguised as productivity. They were simply mercy. I think the body remembers mercy when it has gone too long without being spoken to gently. That’s why such a small thing felt so large.