Overlooking a Beautiful Garden

You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?

Which sadly I can’t do. This house is the wrong shape.

However, it can be a mistake in life to need everything to be perfect, it can hold you back from taking the next step. It took me a long time to learn that.

One of the benefits of social media is that it has opened up the world of thinking to more people. The world of ideas is available to all.

When you see a page with many followers you go and see why. Some of those pages are brilliant. By that I don’t mean influencers as they call them.

I think we should all be cautious of those trying to influence us. It can make it difficult to decide what’s right for you.

The important point here is: people are no longer trapped in the beliefs of their upbringing, as former generations were, ideas are out there for the taking and moulding to fit!

The message

I’ve stopped when things didn’t go well, that was partly acute anxiety, fighting your own mind is exhausting. However, I was born in a time where you didn’t know what else to do other than take tablets that would never work and would eventually destroy your mind. I saw that happen twice, so I fought on.

I stopped because things weren’t perfect, they became yet another thing I had to fight for and I didn’t have the energy.

Let things be imperfect, as long as they’re not impacting you negatively, make the best of them.

Let your other half be not quite prefect, love them anyway. As long as they’re not violent or mentally abusive of course. Know the difference between good but flawed, and evil, and never make excuses for evil.

Let your work serve a purpose not rule your life, counter it by making time to do the things you love. With the people you love.

Don’t try to be the perfect anything, just be authentically you. We’re living in a world gone mad, doing our best, that’s good enough.

You’ll never be perfect if others don’t want you to be anyway, but you weren’t born to serve them.

You might say that the God who created you knew you wouldn’t be perfect as that’s not part of the human condition, and they love you anyway. Love yourself anyway.

Don’t try to be perfect, or have the perfect life, love life anyway.

So I may not have the right writing space, but I write anyway.

Deb xx