Today I painted my nails two different colors.
I know. I’m sure some of you are thinking “Girl, what’s the big deal? I paint my nails ten different colors each week!” But when you are like me, you get comfortable with being comfortable. You don’t stray too much over the lines. You avoid change. You order the same meals at the same restaurants. You watch the same tv shows over and over again. You wear the same clothes week after week — often buying the same shirts and pants in different colors and sometimes in the same colors because you know you like them. You look for the predictable, the routine, the ordinary — especially in the midst of a pandemic. Those ordinary things became a lifeline for me this year. As the world outside me swirled into chaos over the last several months, I leaned into the things I could control and the things I could predict. I responded to the daily uncertainty of our lives by choosing to live my life in comfort, a space that sometimes felt like control. But today I leaned a bit out of my comfort zone. I embraced something unpredictable and different. I chose change. Yes, today I remembered that even though it’s safe and cozy sometimes to live inside the lines, sometimes the things that make us feel secure are actually the things that hold us back from living life to its fullest. So, to those of you out there coping like me — by choosing order, predictability, and ordinary — today might be a good day to stray just a bit outside the lines. I can’t promise that you won’t regret it but I can promise that it’s an important exercise.
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