Tag: perfectionism
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What is wrong with you?
A kid walking down the street This morning, I was walking down the street when a scene stopped me in motion, grabbed my stomach and travelled me back in time. Here’s the situation. A kid is about to cross the road at upcoming traffic when a woman, let’s assume his mum, pulls his arm in… Read more
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On worthiness
Perfect! Not what you project of what it means But how I feel Not what society forces us to believe But how I am How you are Just the way you are No expectation about what to be or to become No strings attached to your behavior or worthiness Perfect Just the way you are… Read more
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On feeling stuck
How does one fucking float? She tries too hard She is been told efforts mean she will be good So she tries too hard She is praised for her intentionality So she mostly overdoes it She does not do it consciously of course She’s been raised like this And this behaviour is reinforced But it… Read more
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New York, New York
‘We are lives that want to be lived’ says Catherine Price in her book The Power of Fun, how to feel alive again. I recently made a realisation that I had somehow drifted away from my old-self and that I wanted to reconnect with her. My understanding is that this sort of loss came as… Read more
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Reflections on kindness and being ordinary
Be kind to yourself Why is it that we can be so hard on ourselves? It’s funny how much obvious it is to observe it in others and act accordingly rather than in ourselves. Funny isn’t the right word really, interesting too unspecific, perhaps ‘enlightening’ might start to describe it? Sometimes you need to see… Read more
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Magic
Breaking free Letting the magic set The fulness of an instant A precious and fragile instant Free of tangible boundaries When you feel lost and suddenly you find yourself You are here You are expanding Connected with oneself With one’s inner voice Expanding inside out Afraid that with sharing may come soiling That the pure… Read more
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Paradox
Love and hate Loved and lonely Committed and free Rational and creative Reliable and flexible The oak and the reed The oak and the reed and the sunflower The oak is rigid and steady The reed is flexible and bendy The sun flower bends towards the sun because that’s what it needs to grow And… Read more
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Childhood poetry
Perfectionism Writing as a way to remember, uncover and heal To feel all the pain The internalised suffering of perfectionism To understand where it comes from and what it means Hearing it to better let it go And stop it from defining who you can be Not to blame but to help heal those who… Read more