Britty Leigh
I live to love
you should give it a try
you should give it a try
It is as if I won’t allow myself to fail, as if I won’t accept my very human nature of imperfection. Rigid, that is the word that comes to mind. I have worked so incredibly hard to maintain this “reputation”, if you will, of a person who has it all together, a person who knows what she is doing, so much that when I decide to let it be and live by the moment for just that, a moment, I sit second guessing and regretting the actions of that moment to the point of tearing myself apart.
This past year one of the greatest areas of growth in my life has been learning to let people live their lives, in the way that they see fit, and love them in that place, regardless of how I feel a life should be lived. Live, let live, and love. So why cant I let myself live, learn from my mistakes, and love myself in the brokenness? Why do I insist on being all forgiving to everyone else yet void in any semblance of compassion for myself?
Live your life. You WILL mess up. Learn from the mess. Forgive yourself, love yourself, and let it go. Keep living.
**Coincidentally enough, my dove chocolate wrapper just read “live in the present, forgive your past”. Weird.
