Everything…everything…everything doesn’t have to look perfect, pretty, acceptable, “appropriate”. Everything doesn’t have to be for show or to score points. Everything doesn’t have to be so much struggle and effort. Slowly, I am learning a little bit about jumping off that cliff.
And everything doesn’t have to be shallow…or hidden in the depths…or riding just above the surface…never quite touching what’s real. Everything doesn’t have to be that cold. The world doesn’t have to be that cold. My own world doesn’t have to be that cold. What I know is: it doesn’t change if there aren’t changes here in me.
Maybe this year is the year I learn to dive…swan dives, nose dives, belly flops…all of it…any of it. What if I let myself be that vulnerable? What if I let myself be that free?
Right now, I don’t even know how that might show up. I don’t even know what that voice might sound like, but I want to find out. I want to meet that person.
As this year opens, I wish us all discovery.
Thanks, you too.