Need To Fall Apart!

"Sanity is Madness put to Good Uses"
-- George Santayana

Do we always need to be strong? ...self-confident, secure, self-assured and know exactly what we are doing? Healthy, Happy and Wise, knowing exactly what we will do next?
All the time...

Or sometimes, do we show our strength by being able to express our vulnerability? Do we allow ourselves to be sick and do we actually take time to be sick, allowing healing?

What about those days when it feels impossible to push any harder, impossible to control the self-doubt and the fear of immanent failure.... when it’s just too difficult to control the frustration, the vulnerability, or continue to even try anymore.... exposing our own humanness?

Sometimes we need to fall apart to regroup and stay on track.

There are days sometimes... when I am working towards an ideal, steadily focusing on a project, or following the necessary process to reach a dream, and it all feels like just too much effort, and I want to give-up, I even tell myself, “That’s it, I’m done, I am not doing this anymore!”

We all have days when we can’t push any harder, can’t hold back self-doubt, can’t stop focusing on fear and can’t be strong. There are days when we can’t focus on being responsible. Sometimes we cry in front of other people. We expose our tiredness, irritability or anger. Those days are okay.

Part of taking care of ourselves means we give ourselves permission to 'fall apart' when we need to. No one needs or has to be a perpetual tower of strength. We are strong. We have proven that our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak and vulnerable when we need to experience those feelings. We allow ourselves to be human, and sometimes allowing ourselves to ‘fall apart’, in essence can mean we celebrate our very birthright of being a Human Being!

When I do allow myself to ‘fall apart’ with feelings of frustration and tiredness, allowing myself to be vulnerable.... those moments or days, allow me the time and space to regroup.

It’s okay to allow yourself to be human, and that feeling guilty or punishing yourself with condemnation and self-criticism, denies your birthright of the human experience...

Allow yourself to be human.
Allow yourself to fall apart if you need.
Know that it’s okay to fall apart.
It’s your birthright to be human....

So Love yourself Always and ALL Ways!

It’s your birthright to be a Human Being!

Love and Laughter (and healing tears ;o)
Mands

This article is dedicated to my husband Dave,
who says frequently these days,
“Mands, I love you Always and All Ways!”
so you can just imagine the amount of ‘fall apart’ minutes, hours and sometimes days, I am taking to celebrate being human *Grin*.... and to my spell checker, that has very serendipitously provided me a reminder (to laugh) and that I am human: When ‘Mands’ comes up as a wrongly spelt word the ‘right’ word provided is ‘Madness’.... *Grin*!!!