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It's OK to be Average!!!

30 January, 2013 - 8:56am - Kawaiineko

I am accepting that IT IS OK TO BE AVERAGE. All my Life, I have felt the need to be perfect. The perfect everything. And when I wasn't (as none of us are) I felt like I was such a disappointment. So now I am accepting who I am and where I am in life and IT'S OK. Let me tell you, the relief is immense and while I haven't fully mastered the attitude, the moments I have, have been so full of relief. That if this is all I am going to be, then it's OK.

And so if I just pass the project I am working on, then it's OK!! The point for me is just to finish it. No more, no less.  

 

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Thanks for this, Kawaiineko!

gotmusikk - 30 Jan 2013 - 2:06pm

Thanks for sharing your realization! This is something that I struggle a lot with too, and like you said... in the moments where I can be kind to myself and feel that "I am enough" already, without "oh but I have to do ________ very well, etc" afterwards, it's a huge relief.  And it helps me get more done with less anxiety.

YAY. :-)

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"Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?"
-- Pema Chodron

It's a pleasure!

Kawaiineko - 1 Feb 2013 - 4:42am

Dear gotmusikk

I'm glad you can relate! Everytime I read this post of mine, I get happy. The irony is we are better than we think we are. But to the psyche, it is a huge relief to know that: it's ok to be average!!!

Kind Regards,

Kawaiineko

interesting point Kawaiineko!

Dotty - 13 Feb 2013 - 4:55am

really good i like it a lot!!!!

Coz if I view my life so far through the 'lens' of perfection (if that makes sense) then that means that I have failed... I have not received accolade after accolade, reached the top of my profession (nowhere near that!) etc..

It is so easy to view our lives and achievements in a negative way... but if as you say 'we're allowed to be average' - then I have done just fine!! And that makes me feel better already :-)

thanks

Dotty 

 

Hugs!!!

Kawaiineko - 5 Mar 2013 - 5:23am

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