2/11/2024 0 Comments Beautiful mess self love quotesYou are gloriously messy, but you are you. No one else is made up of your mess, and that’s kind of beautiful when you think about it. When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn’t need to show up anywhere else. There’s a giant leap between wanting to be better and benching yourself from things like chasing your dreams because you think you aren’t good enough yet. There’s a difference between wanting to be the best version of yourself and feeling like you have to hide all the parts of yourself that aren’t quite up to par yet. But I think there is a big, huge, massive difference between striving for improvement and cutting away at parts of ourselves that have no business being shaved down to nothing. Is there room for improvement? Good grief, most days I think there is only room for improvement. All different sections and parts that make up the glorious mess that I am. I’m messy BUT I’m a really hard worker.” No! I have messy hair AND I’m a really great friend. “I’m anxious BUT I’m a really good listener. This is where we often feel the imaginary cue to jump in a defend ourselves. I struggle deeply (and often out loud) with questions about my faith. I take forever to respond to texts and emails. My nails are never done for more than a few hours. I get overwhelmed and sometimes end up just sitting on the couch trying to catch my breath instead of paying attention to everything around me that needs to get done. I don’t handle high levels of stress well. If a friend doesn’t reply to two of my texts in a row, I will spend the day having chest pain over what imaginary thing I must have done. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is too much to react to with just one emotion, one thought, or any bias. I have crazy levels of anxiety over stupid things. Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. I call it “beachy” and hope no one notices I haven’t brushed it for like six weeks. It’s frizzy and tangled most of the time. Trying to make our mess look better, more acceptable. About how we spend so much time trying to fix our mess of a self. It’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. I felt like Elizabeth Gilbert was talking directly to me the entire time, and the quote, “Embrace the glorious mess that you are” is one that will stay with me always. There are very few books that I would consider “life-changing” in the literal sense, and this was one of them.
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