Life is like a roller coaster, cliché – I know. Sometimes there are highs and sometimes there are lows. And when it rains, boy, does it pour. If we try and say we haven’t been through that, we’re lying.
When times get tough and maybe not going the way we plan, do you ever realize how hard we can be on ourselves sometimes? Like sit there and think about it. We are really really critical. A lot of the time, we struggle accepting criticism from other people but have no problem being our own harshest critics.
“I can do better than that.” We tell ourselves that over and over striving for a perfection that we can never meet.
We take those mess-ups to heart and read into it entirely too much. We think of the immediate worst case scenario. We think that whatever bad situation we find ourselves in is the “worst day of our lives”. Imagine how many times we’ve said that. Just think how many times you didn’t expect to make it out of the day alive, yet you did.
Sometimes we just say the wrong thing. Sometimes we wish we handled a situation better. Sometimes we wish we would’ve hugged a little longer, cried a little less, or laughed a little louder. We replay those actions in our heads like movie critics and analyze every. single. detail. We know ourselves better than anyone else and we know when we mess up or do something wrong, even if others miss it.
But when those times come, does that just give us an excuse to push ourselves to our breaking point? No, not at all. We need to understand that we’re doing the best we can…
Relax, breath, and remember your worth. Bad days are so likely to come to anyone. You’re not alone.
“You can’t control some situations, only how you react to them”. So react with love. React with grace. React with kindness. And react with gentleness. Cut yourself some slack, because you are doing the best you can.
