No matter how young or how old we are, we are going to make "mistakes," which I now like to call "learning opportunities." For a long time I believed I had to have everything together, or else I just wasn't good enough for anyone or anything. What an exhausting job that was to have. Perfectionism, in my opinion, is a slow painful death of the Spirit. A form of self abuse so subtle, that even society at large has accepted the belief as something noble.
Not to worry though, just as humans evolve, humanity is evolving, too. Collectively. Together. I don't if you have noticed or not, but the world's going a little crazy right now.(Insert sarcastic tone here) The best advice I ever received was from my boyfriend in High School, "things always get a little worse before they get better." I believe that's what's going on here now. In my personal journey, my struggle with perfectionism has broken me down time and time again. Sometimes it has been very painful. Sometimes I have had no clue what was happening, let alone what is coming next. Trying to live up to some ideal that I don't even belong to, set me up for failure over and over and over again. It's been something like judging a monkey by how well they can swim. They're not made for that, and neither am I made to be a finished product. The shattering of the wall of my inner perfectionism has led to a more authentic me. Life is meant to be lived and experimented with. Any "state of perfection" I have strived for, is point blank some kind of mental brainwashing and condition I have learned long, long ago. I don't know about you, but I'm ready to move on. I'm ready to evolve! Or to more accurately explain it: I'm ready to stop getting in the way of the evolution that is already happening...
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Rebecca Griffin
Owner and Founder of RLG Holistic Life Coaching & Reiki. Archives
August 2017
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