when i look down i just miss all the good stuff and when i look up i trip over things
all of these lines across my face
tell you the story of who i am
so many stories of where i’ve been
and how i got to where i am
- Brandi Carlile
It was not until yesterday that I began to really understand, to internalize, to accept this whole idea that, IT IS OKAY TO MAKE MISTAKES.
It is okay for me, it is okay for you. Messing up is, in fact, a necessary learning process, essential to taking risks and trying new things.
Sara said it best: When faced with a decision think, what would your fearless, loving self do?
“Implicit in our culture is the message that we should constantly move away from discomfort. We drug strong feelings, we try to “calm people down” and we only feel competent if we “make someone feel better.” We are not a culture that has any tolerance for pain, difficult feelings, or unusal affective expressions. In that, discomfort tends to compel us to eliminate difference, pull people into our worldview and see things as normal only when we ourselves are again comfortable.”
-Sherry Mead
