Wordsmith

I cut her lose last night. She came back, exhausted. I can still see that look deep down in her eyes, not as intense yet still there. It isn’t over yet. Not by a long shot. I won’t bind her again. It did feel good to let go of all those resentments and anger, and in those eyes I can see peace and serenity surfacing. 

I am moved by the blog post I read yesterday. If you haven’t read it, please do that now. I will wait because it is important and you won’t be disappointed.

Thank you. I hope you shared it. If not please share it now. If you didn’t read it or read the whole thing, please stop and do that now. My post is not important – that one is.

Facebook post from a friend, “With all these body image issues I deal with, now someone on TV says my eyelashes might be inadequate, this just puts me right over the edge!!!”

We all laughed, shot a few sarcastic remarks around but I can bet that all of us looked in the mirror to see if our eyelashes might be inadequate. We have been bombarded with marketing that is geared to hit you right where they can profit: our low self-esteem. These guys are smart and effective.

Watch your words. Tell yourself or be told enough that you are fat, you are ugly, you are worthless, you are lazy, you are hyper, you are headstrong, you are a dreamer, you will amount to nothing…and you will begin to believe it. Worse yet, we will become it. Once we run out of thing to beat yourself up over, we will try to find a flaw we overlooked. Even the good things will be turned to negative if we aren’t careful. Headstrong, dreamers and being energetic are not flaws! They are positive character traits that get you places in life. Embrace them! They are tools for you, use them.

I am taking a closer look at myself in a different way. The pot roast story is a good place to start when trying to look at the who’s, what’s and why’s that we do things the way we do.

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I slump, not because I’m tall but because I have small breasts.

I stopped wearing heels because my ex is shorter than me and it bothers him.

I don’t go see my mother or call her because I cannot stand up to her biting remarks.

I don’t discuss religion anymore because I don’t feel the need to defend my beliefs to close-minded people.

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I will walk everyday not because its healthy or good for me. I will and do walk almost every day because I enjoy walking and feel fantastic after a good walk.

I will continue to color my hair because I like trying different things.

I pierced my belly because I think its cute. I pierced my nose because I think its cute.

I will continue to get tattoos that have meaning to me.

Just because I can do web design, code, and work on cars does not mean that I want to do these things all the time.

Not all accidents are bad. Beautiful things can happen out of unexpected results.

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What will you do today differently? What part(s) of you have you let go of that you would like back? If you can’t be kind to yourself, then at least don’t be mean to yourself. Remember that Mother Earth and Father God always have your back.