Luna Lovegood

There are other reasons why we resist growth. Growing means taking responsibility for ourselves in all ways. The child part of us that longs for someone else to rescue us from our pain becomes very loud when we consider taking on this task ourselves.
Reklam
Let’s pause here to take some time to begin the process of rewiring what’s “wrong” and focus on what’s right, whole, and healthy. The most effective way to do this is to write an appreciation list of who you are in your highest, most essential self. This isn’t a list of your achievements, degrees, or anything external. Rather, it’s a list of your intrinsic, inviolable qualities that speak to your character and your heart.
To be human is to remember that this being human is an experiment without a goal or destination, but with a plan that includes learning about love at its center.
If you’re not meant to pretzel yourself into the myth of normal and the expectation of happiness, what are you meant to do? Instead of striving for happiness and normal, let’s strive to be human, which isn’t striving at all but a gentle allowing of ourselves to be exactly as we are. What does it mean to be human?
When you hear the word should, instead ask, “What would be most loving to myself and others right now?”
Reklam