drifting away

When we choose growth over perfection, we immediately increase our shame resilience. Improvement is a far more realistic goal than perfection. Merely letting go of unattainable goals makes us less susceptible to shame. When we believe "we must be this" we ignore who or what we actually are, our capacity and our limitations. We start from the image of perfection, and of course, from perfection there is nowhere to go but down.

Sometimes we become so bound to a routine life that we fail to see the infinite freedom that awaits us behind it. So, take moments to exit this cycle. Feel the wind in your hair. The grass beneath your feet. There is much fresher air to be breathed when life becomes unbound from these shackles of routine.