"If you believe enough, it will happen." Big juicy NOPE on that. All of us aren't going to get everything we want, despite believing in "the secret" or ourselves or doing our damnedest. That's just how life works. It's disappointing AF, but it's also fine. Some live life like we are racing to a destination -- we need to "achieve" certain things by certain times or we have "failed" and that's such harmful sh!t. One goal I don't see enough is just being happy. We wait for it, think we need to earn it or achieve a status so we can finally be it. But that's also not how it works. Nothing from the outside will fill our insides like we hope. We have to do that on our own. Hope your cottage will soon feel like home, Harriet. May there be wonderful surprises headed your way. xo
I love the idea of making "being happy" the goal, rather than being happy from the results of the goal. I'm mulling over a piece about ambition and this needs to be in there x
Absolutely love this perspective on "this too shall pass". I often use it to remind me that things are temporary so when I'm drowning in anxiety or feeling overwhelmed, it does exactly what you said...it brings me back to the present. Never thought of that before.
'Cheer up' or 'smile' especially when it's followed by 'it may never happen' when it may already have happened, or even be happening in the moment
"Cheer up" is the worst!
"If you believe enough, it will happen." Big juicy NOPE on that. All of us aren't going to get everything we want, despite believing in "the secret" or ourselves or doing our damnedest. That's just how life works. It's disappointing AF, but it's also fine. Some live life like we are racing to a destination -- we need to "achieve" certain things by certain times or we have "failed" and that's such harmful sh!t. One goal I don't see enough is just being happy. We wait for it, think we need to earn it or achieve a status so we can finally be it. But that's also not how it works. Nothing from the outside will fill our insides like we hope. We have to do that on our own. Hope your cottage will soon feel like home, Harriet. May there be wonderful surprises headed your way. xo
I love the idea of making "being happy" the goal, rather than being happy from the results of the goal. I'm mulling over a piece about ambition and this needs to be in there x
Absolutely love this perspective on "this too shall pass". I often use it to remind me that things are temporary so when I'm drowning in anxiety or feeling overwhelmed, it does exactly what you said...it brings me back to the present. Never thought of that before.