Prompt for December 18: Self compassion: Were you gentle with yourself in 2011? Tell us about how you were compassionate towards yourself in 2011. Or maybe you want to be more compassionate in 2012. How will you be kind towards yourself?
I'm not very easy on myself. Oh, sure, I have a million and half ways to justify not doing things or to rationalize lazing about or buying that next pair of shoes but if I had to choose some words to describe myself, idiot would be among them. Sometimes self-deprecatingly endearing, other times...not.
And I think most people are their toughest critics, so, so it goes. It is how it is and all that.
But, I feel like I made some progress this year in saying I'm ok with feeling a certain way, even if it's not the perfect way or the self contained everything's fine way.
Namely, I do want to be in a relationship and get married. If I don't, I'll survive and flourish and do all sorts of exciting things with my life but still. It's ok that I feel that being in a romantic relationship is a more ideal state for me than not.
(So long as its a healthy, happy one, I know, don't worry, amn't calling up Butterfly Guy)
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