Today I choose to honor how I'm feeling when I compare myself to others.
I choose to be kind to myself and what I'm experiencing in this moment,
Knowing that this moment is temporary.
The way I'm feeling right now won't last,
And I choose to honor it and I allow myself to feel what I'm feeling,
Because the alternative is to deny my human experience.
The human experience is full of ups and downs and in-betweens,
So I can fight it or I can choose to write it.
And all the while knowing I don't have to become entrenched in these feelings,
I can be there for myself as I experience this low,
And I can allow myself to feel it,
And then I can let it go.
I can allow this experience to move through me like a storm moves through the landscape.
Sucking is such a destructive hobby,
And yet most of us get sucked in on a regular basis.
Sucked into believing that we aren't good enough just as we are,
That we must do more,
Be more,
Say more in order to be worthy,
And the only one sucking us in is ourselves.
We tell ourselves a story that we aren't good enough,
But the truth is we are.
Some of us spend so much time pulling and reaching and running and exhausting ourselves trying to get to this other place of worthiness where we finally feel like we've done enough.
But this place doesn't exist.
You will be chasing it for the rest of your life.
So what's the solution?
You choose to believe that your pure existence makes you enough.
You realize that there isn't anything else you have to do.
There isn't anything more you have to be.
Just being alive as who you are right now in this world is always enough.
That is the starting point.
And from that vantage point,
You can decide to do whatever feels good for you.
But there is no requirement on you.
There is no mountain you must climb.
The goal while you're here on earth is to enjoy your life,
To do what makes you happy,
Not to chase a never-ending to-do list.
Please don't look back at the end and wish you would have experienced more joy.
Be happy now.
Use contentment now.
