~~I give myself permission to be human this week. I am no machine, no robot, no superhero even. I won't get it all right. I don't want to get it all right. I just want my free, my happy, my peace. To let myself be. To let myself feel. To grow. To learn something new. To get up close to the beauty and not give stress the go-ahead to rule me. ~~ S, C. Lourie
Being human is just about the best thing to be, isn't it? To make mistakes and be ok with them. To apologize when you're wrong. To offer kindness. To fall and get back up after deciding to lay there for just a bit. To feel. The highs and the lows. Getting through the bad by just remembering it won't always be like that.
I'm gonna be human this week. Not perfect. Not a failure. Just human. I will say the right thing before blowing it by saying the wrong thing. I will be kind only to find out that I missed an opportunity to be kinder. I will laugh and I will probably cry as well. I will be human.
As for you? Well, I hope you embrace your human. I hope when you fall, you will get back up. I hope that you accept the kindness of a stranger and I hope you are ok being mediocre rather than perfect. I hope you feel. However you feel.
And I hope most of all that you allow yourself to be. That you don't try to be better or braver or smarter or prettier. Just be. And may you find peace in that. And a wonderful sense of contentment.
No need to smoke over today. No need to hide from yourself. No need to cover up what you see as less than. You. Are. Human.
And that it pretty perfect, don't you think?
