Stop criticizing

I mean it. 

Stop criticizing.  

Stop criticizing yourself, others, the situation you’re in, the decisions you’ve made, the decisions you didn’t make, the decisions you’re too afraid to make.

Just stop. 

You are enough. All-day long, You Are Enough. 

I don’t really mean to yell. Well, kind of I mean to yell. 

But trust me, I’m yelling at myself first. 

I woke up today exhausted. 

It’s not because I work a physical job or even that I spend a lot of time doing a bunch of yard work. 

It’s the worst kind of exhaustion. 

The exhaustion that comes from endlessly nitpicking everything I do, every word I utter, asking myself if that was the “right” thing to say. 

Even worse, asking my husband this. The inevitable looks of wtf are you talking about tend to center me. But still, I often ask. 

There is no right. There is no wrong. 

We’ve been plunked down on this rock with only one task. 

Living. 

Go do that. 

“Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the everchanging and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.”   -Berenice Abbott