I am always hearing that I should learn to love myself, treat myself lovingly, embrace who I am. I think that is good advice and I try to get better at those things as I move along.
What I don't hear is that I must continuously strive to grow. Why? Because I will grow no matter what and if I don't do it in conscious ways, I might stray off the path into ways that are counterproductive to my best life.
Getting to know who I am is an ongoing process for me. I know that I love food. It is my go to way of dealing with life, so the past few years I have found comfort foods that don't pack on the pounds or add too many carbs to a body that tends towards being obese and diabetic.
Other people I know find themselves scattered. They start a bunch of things and finish none of them and somehow seem to find this part of themselves adorable. I don't understand that. It seems to me that life would be immensely better for them if they could find some way of teaching themselves to choose smaller projects and refuse to be deterred until each one is done.
One tiny step at a time. Picking my way across this rocky precipice called life, I choose care over falling. It may not be exhilarating in the moment, but it can be pretty heady in the long run.
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