Fwd: Fridays
Letters to Perfectionism #174
Dear Perfectionism,
There’s something really freeing, peaceful, and easy about Fridays that you and I really relax into. 🛀🏽
Then, I feel a peace that I want for myself all the time.
Friday is like a special temporal context: 🗓️
The week is over.
I’ve done what I needed to do (or most of it).
I’m not beholden to anyone or anything.
In this temporary reprieve of responsibility, right now, I can finally, truly rest.
I wonder whether that’s your M.O, dear Perfectionism? 🌟
The responsibility, the doing, the relentlessness, the busyness, the correcting, the productivity, the pushing, the trying, the striving - all that is to dispense with responsibility and obligation. To get it all done and perfect.
Because THEN (and only then) will we be left alone. Then we can relax, then we will feel this peace that we so badly want for ourselves. 😭
But Friday is only a state, right?
It emerged from within me, organically. Surely I’m capable of generating that for us more often - at will? ⚡️
How to create this spacious ‘free-from responsibility no obligation’ for myself more often…
Because even on Fridays, there are still obligations waiting in the wings. And yet somehow they feel so serene, regardless.
🤲🏻 I want that every other day of the week.
Another thing to fix or improve… 😄
Love, Chris x