As everyone around us presses Pause, wouldn't it be a good time to stop comparing ourselves to others? It's not the time to be shamed.
We get this time to examine where we are in our lives and where we might be headed and not necessarily to gallop full-speed ahead. Over the last several weeks we've grown to understand that the changes that are coming are still out of sight, they are just beyond the next corner. But they will come.
We don't know what Life is going to look like, and neither does anyone else. Not me, not you, not the smartest person you know.
Comparing ourselves to others has become commonplace. It is everywhere we have looked and perhaps if we are fortunate that's going to change.
We've grown accustomed to so many questions of comparison. How far did you run, how fast did you go, where is your next holiday? How to get 2 million followers in 3 days, or how to lose 20 pounds over a weekend. It goes on and on. And most of it is so far-fetched and yet we still fall for its promise.
We want it. We want it fast.
Well right now, nothing is happening fast and it's annoying us, scaring us, confusing us. But. But. But, we say. (Tweet This)
We have been trained in the last several years to compare ourselves to everyone around us in the most unhealthy of ways. And maybe now we can stop. Let's agree to not be shamed.
We only have so many starry nights left.
Comparison is a slippery slope into despair, into shaming ourselves when we hear what other folks are supposedly doing. (Tweet This)
Just so you know, I am not learning a new language, or writing a novel, nor will I emerge from this time slot as an expert on any one subject, in fact I am still not an expert on anything.
I hope however, that I am better at a few important things, wiser about how my mind works, more forgiving and less concerned about what doesn't matter in my life. This Pause has allowed me to focus, to understand a little bit more of what to leave behind.
So here's to freeing ourselves from who we thought we were. To seeing our world as the friendly, kind place it should be. To letting go of the expectations for accomplishing something every minute of every day or otherwise feeling bad.
Let's be humble, let's be real, let's fail at something, let's bake and paint and draw and make music. Let's take a nap. Let's cut ourselves a little slack. Because we deserve it. (Tweet This)
I have left the dust on the furniture for the last week and as a friend of mine exclaimed "I didn't know that being messy is so much fun".
In the coming days let's be humble, let's be real, let's fail at something. Let's not compare. (Tweet This)
Now tell me, what will you leave behind?
Stay safe, stay kind.
We get this time to examine where we are in our lives and where we might be headed and not necessarily to gallop full-speed ahead. Over the last several weeks we've grown to understand that the changes that are coming are still out of sight, they are just beyond the next corner. But they will come.
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| It's Not the Time to Be Shamed |
We don't know what Life is going to look like, and neither does anyone else. Not me, not you, not the smartest person you know.
Comparing ourselves to others has become commonplace. It is everywhere we have looked and perhaps if we are fortunate that's going to change.
We've grown accustomed to so many questions of comparison. How far did you run, how fast did you go, where is your next holiday? How to get 2 million followers in 3 days, or how to lose 20 pounds over a weekend. It goes on and on. And most of it is so far-fetched and yet we still fall for its promise.
We want it. We want it fast.
Well right now, nothing is happening fast and it's annoying us, scaring us, confusing us. But. But. But, we say. (Tweet This)
 |
| It's Not the Time to Be Shamed |
We have been trained in the last several years to compare ourselves to everyone around us in the most unhealthy of ways. And maybe now we can stop. Let's agree to not be shamed.
We only have so many starry nights left.
Comparison is a slippery slope into despair, into shaming ourselves when we hear what other folks are supposedly doing. (Tweet This)
Just so you know, I am not learning a new language, or writing a novel, nor will I emerge from this time slot as an expert on any one subject, in fact I am still not an expert on anything.
I hope however, that I am better at a few important things, wiser about how my mind works, more forgiving and less concerned about what doesn't matter in my life. This Pause has allowed me to focus, to understand a little bit more of what to leave behind.
So here's to freeing ourselves from who we thought we were. To seeing our world as the friendly, kind place it should be. To letting go of the expectations for accomplishing something every minute of every day or otherwise feeling bad.
Let's be humble, let's be real, let's fail at something, let's bake and paint and draw and make music. Let's take a nap. Let's cut ourselves a little slack. Because we deserve it. (Tweet This)
I have left the dust on the furniture for the last week and as a friend of mine exclaimed "I didn't know that being messy is so much fun".
In the coming days let's be humble, let's be real, let's fail at something. Let's not compare. (Tweet This)
Now tell me, what will you leave behind?
Stay safe, stay kind.
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