You are almost there.....

You will have to stay with me as I use my love of language and expand a metaphor today:)....our lives are really like a novel.....living chapters, and turning pages every day.....closing one chapter and opening another.....and I think what helps me endure through the tough stuff is that the story itself is fascinating to me....every bit of it.....my story and the story of others.....and whenever I feel stifled or stymied some, I just remind myself that you have no idea what will be found in the pages up ahead.....or in the next chapter, or even in the next day.......and that shines light on the struggle in such a beautiful way.....realizing that if you do not like the place you are in today, you may love the place you are tomorrow....and wow right?? When I see where I am today vs where I was even a year ago or two years ago or five.....it is vastly different and my blessings and satisfaction have multiplied.....yet......due to being human, and subject to human stuff I still have dissatisfaction in certain areas of my life.....wishing for a different place to be.....and so this reminder is what keeps me working to be satisfied in the now, and believing deeply in the future......allowing myself to accept and enjoy the present, but also anticipate and have appreciation for things that have yet to be....I am most definitely a reformed perfectionist.....I still hold high expectations for myself, that may never change.....but I am much better at giving grace to myself and accepting what is....not fighting and doing more flowing....and trusting it to unfold as it will....and reveling in the perfection of the imperfect.....knowing that the version of our lives we have, are THE versions we need to....all of the parts.....and I think having faith in the future should be something we are careful of.....because I have come to understand our appreciation of the now is our way to joy and peace and happiness, and all of that good stuff.....it is not a destination....wherever we are headed......it is the now that matters......but in that same spirit you are also almost there......we truly never know what is right around the next corner......a new opportunity....a new adventure......a new person we meet.......new love......new...........like who knew right??? Anything is possible....that is true:) I have never been more certain of anything in all of my life......and certainly now:) And belief is half the battle.....I was watching a woman I work with, who is not all that old but FEELS old.....and struggles with moving, and walking to where she needs to be....and her belief is so strong in all of those things that it surrounds her and suffocates her......keeping her so stuck.......and I feel for her so deeply.......because our beliefs are our only confines.....truly......if we want to free ourselves, or a part of us we need to check our beliefs and adjust accordingly......self limiting beliefs are that for a reason.......so this morning finds me enjoying this chapter, and believing in the next one, wherever it takes me:) Half day for me today, and one tomorrow, and well hello to my summer of 2025 chapter;-) Full of endless possibility;-)