quit trying to play THat part in life - play you

​Chances are, before you got to my post, you scrolled through and maybe even stopped and looked at or read a half dozen other posts. And it's possible - a half dozen times you found yourself thinking I need to be THAT pretty or I need to be able to run THAT far or I need to have kids who are THAT smart or a family THAT happy or I need to have THAT kind of success at my job or I need - on and on and on it goes.

Chances are, before you got here you spent a lot more time thinking about THAT life than you did thinking about YOUR life.

By almost every mental health measure available, we have more unhappy people living among us than we've ever had. Those numbers were true long before Covid - we can't blame the virus for everything.

I think that's a mirror problem.

Too often, when we look in the mirror, we see who we are not - and not who we are. We see who we think we can never be - who we can never measure up to - we see THAT life - and not someone on a journey to becoming THEIR best life.

The mirror that constantly has us thinking of and feeling pressured to live THAT life; it's exhausting. And - because it is forever unobtainable - because believe me once you get THAT life another THAT life pops up in the mirror - it's depressing.

You were not put on this earth to play a part. You were put here to be you. The world doesn't need who you feel like you are supposed to be - the world needs you.

The world needs the you that follows your heart and your mind and your soul - not the you chasing THAT life in the mirror.

You know who else needs that? You do.

You deserve to experience the freedom that comes with accepting you are on a perfect but painfully flawed journey to becoming you. You deserve to look in the mirror every morning and every night and loving the you that you're becoming - because you ARE always becoming you.

What you will never become? THAT. You will never become THAT.

So quit trying to play THAT part. Just live you.