Whew! Glad that's out of the way!
It didn't take me long to "fail" at my every day blogging commitment. You might imagine that I feel badly about that, but I honestly feel really good. I tend to be an all-or-nothing kind of girl, and it's a good discipline for me to recognize my limits without giving up. So I'm still here and still excited about what blogging does for me. In fact, I think it makes this space more human and welcoming.
A few weeks ago I was reading a book that I downloaded about simplicity. There are a few people I really look up to in this area and I was really impressed with these writers and what they had been able to accomplish. About half-way through the book one of the authors confessed that he has a long way to go before he accomplishes some of his goals. For instance, he still has quite a bit of debt that he's working to eliminate and he still has a huge mortgage that he's paying down in order to sell, yadda, yadda. And I noticed as I was reading this that I was experiencing relief and hope. So I stopped to examine those feelings.
I realized that I felt at home with these people who were headed in the same direction that I am AND experiencing some of the same challenges that I am. There's something so refreshing about running into people who are candid about the struggles that a journey entails. It's good to know that we're not alone when we hit a wall or wrestle with what it takes to get from here to there. Sometimes it's good to be reminded that "here" is the only place I can really be. No matter how good "there" is, I will only inch closer by embracing "here" with all of my heart and strength.
Maybe "there" is just an excuse to give up.
Isn't it good to be here? Isn't it good to be human together?
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people." ~Anne Lamott