04/20/2019

EMBRACE THE SUCK.
Yeah, I said it-
AND I wear it. -
There are some things that I’m dealing with right now that suck.
I cry about the pain, and I feel the pain-
But--Embrace it?
HUG it- LOOOOOVE it?
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Maybe one day-
but today isn’t of of THOSE days that I’m appreciative of “the suck”
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Don’t get me wrong, I know that I will be learning from the suck, and growing from the suck, but I don’t “like” being IN the suck.
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Being positive and happy is super cool and fun- and sells a lot of books right now-but our lives were NOT made to be happy ALL the time. -
Our lives suck sometimes too-
and just because 86% of the time I can practice gratitude and “look on the sunny side” of life and see pandas holding puppies while eating skittles on a rainbow-
Doesn’t mean that life, sometimes doesn’t SUCK.
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And you know what?
The more positivity that’s thrown up our butts and “BE HAPPY” memes we are bombarded with everyday don’t help much-
when life sucks-
b/c we *think* there is something wrong with US when life isn’t “happy”
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Constant positivity is a weird sense of denial-
one that can look pretty on the inside-
but like a day old hamburger- really eff with our insides.
Rather than DENY negative emotions that I am having at the time, I am learning to express them healthfully by crying, sharing with friends whom I trust and, on occasion-shouting curse words in the garage.
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By fully embracing the suck- on the flip side
It also allows me to fully embrace JOY-
the smell of my kids’ sweaty head, the morning tune of birds out my window in the morning and a friends’ unexpected call.
The trick is learning to embrace BOTH
FULLY-
which is a lesson I’m always learning. -
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