too often we make a mistake and throw up our hands and just 'forget it', but be gentle with yourself. You are perfect in your imperfection. We all make mistakes, we all fall down, sometimes we fall down on others. Forgive yourself. Around this time of year especially, I tend to want everything to be perfect. The perfect dinner, the perfect decorations, the perfect family; and I have to remind myself that the glossy, magazine perfection plastered everywhere is NOT real. So, I'm giving myself permission to not be perfect, so what if the tree leans a little, the lights aren't all equally distant from each other, the list of imperfections can go on and on, but it doesn't matter. My husband loves me, my children are loving, healthy,well adjusted and regardless of the stresses in my life I am loving it and where I am now. So I leave you with Emerson and permission to not be perfect.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
under the same moon and stars,
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I love this! Thanks for sharing this. It made me a little happier today.
ReplyDeletei love emerson! and i love your perspective too... cutting ourselves some slack is always a good idea :)
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