I need me

Today, I am in my classroom and I am thinking about children and adults alike, who don't know how to love themselves.  They get into relationships that aren't healthy where they are used to make others feel good, but they themselves come out suicidal.  They hurt themselves, they cut themselves, they torture themselves because they have no self esteem and no self worth.  Their relationships with people mean more to them than they do themselves.  I liken this person to the person for which everyone has value accept them.  I pray for their strength.  I am acutely aware that, at the end of the day, I am the only person I have left.  I need me.  I need me to be whole and healthy and well.  I can't let you destroy me because I may be all I have left.  When you get through destroying me, you still have you.  You can repent, get yourself together and live another whole life after you destroy me, but not I.  I have to survive.  I will survive. I ...................survived.