April 17, 2016

Listen up , kids. There's no such thing as PERFECT

No one, NO ONE, can have a perfect life.  You can perfect moments, as in, "My hair looks great!" or "All my kids are safe and healthy this morning", but that's about it.  MOMENTS OF PERFECT are what you want to strive for.  Even a Perfect Day is unrealistic and that's why you will hear people ask, "What would your perfect day look like?"

I watched a documentary about woman alcoholics.  Everyone interviewed said she started drinking because her life wasn't as perfect as she perceived everyone else's life to be.  Such Facebook bullshit.  Those perfect pictures you see on Facebook are, in fact, MOMENTS.  I promise you, by the time the picture is done real life is happening, with disagreements and money problems and heartbreak.

As of today, lower the bar.  Aim for one perfect moment today.  A warm shower?  A good sandwich?  Not too much traffic on the way home? Employment?  No hospital visits? A bed to sleep in?

I promise you that more good stuff happened today than bad.  No good thing is too small to mention, because if that small thing wasn't there it would probably be a big thing.  Just give a THANK YOU to the universe and be nice to a stranger (who might not have had as many perfect moments as you did in the past week.)