I think I made a new friend today. That was fun.
I gotta say my get up and go has got up and went. I'm a tired monkey these days. Not really anything to chat about tonight so I'll just wing it.
My new friend seems to be a terrific person who's just too hard on himself. It got me to thinkin' about all the shitty things we say to ourselves... the stuff we wouldn't dream of saying to another person. Maybe the hardest lesson of all is to cut ourselves some slack. The expectations that we heap on ourselves can seem awfully harsh sometimes. How 'bout we practise just giving ourselves the benefit of the doubt. I extend those all the time to people so maybe I deserve it myself. I'm not saying we deserve a free ride. Who else is going to hold me to the standards I've set if not ... me. But sometimes I think it's easy to go over the line and become hyper self- critical. The bad news there is it pushes us to make choices that we might not make otherwise. (All this makes sense in my head so I apologize if it's not translating very well on the page :) )
Anyway... all I'm suggesting is that we spend the next, let's say, 13 days being as kind to ourselves as humanly possible. We deserve it.
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