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What if All I Want is a Mediocre Life?
What if I all I want is a small, slow, simple life? What if I am most happy in the space of in between? Where calm lives.
I saw this and hearted it, because I read it and felt at home. And then I kept scrolling and saw something from another blogger about an email he had received that brought up some bad feelings, so I felt the need to go back and reblog this but with some commentary. So, in my typical fashion, here’s my opinion no one asked for:
As children, many of us were told ad nauseam to “reach for the stars” “shoot for the moon”. We are told we were special, smarter, faster… we were brought up in a culture of “more is better”, and if it wasn’t gold star material, then whatever you did was worthless. What this led to, for many of us, was crippling anxiety that we aren’t doing ENOUGH with our lives, regardless of how content we may be with it. We aren’t allowing ourselves to see the joy in this mundane, these “spaces in between”.
How would the world function if there were nothing but rocket scientists and doctors and celebrities in it? How would things actually happen? Who would fix dinner?
Your joy is where your heart lives. Maybe you’d rather travel the world, or write novels and get paid for it, but right now you’re a mom of three kids holding down a forty hour a week job and just trying to make sure everyone gets fed and to bed on time. It’s not nobel-prize worthy, but it’s good work. And it’s okay to take joy in a backyard picnic, or a twenty year old inside joke with your partner, or a glass of grocery store wine after those kids go to bed. It’s okay to be happy with a simpler life.
YOUR LIFE IS ENOUGH. YOU ARE ENOUGH.
(Source: whiteantcrawls)
