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Self care: Nothing wrong with your imperfection

There is nothing wrong with you being imperfect. You just have to live the best honest life you possibly can [Courtesy]

Dynamic social life, post-pandemic and post-election times would have some of us going for adventures to "find ourselves." Come to think of it, did you at some point lose yourself? If you need a holiday, just go and have some fun and rejuvenate. If things are not as smooth as you would like, it may not be your fault entirely. There is nothing wrong with you being imperfect. You just have to live the best honest life you possibly can. I am in no way advocating for you to ditch self-improvement efforts. Go ahead and upgrade, but do not beat yourself up for it.

Do not allow your inner critic to convince you that there is something wrong with you that needs fixing, or that you lost yourself and you need to be found. When you slip and fall, it is part of life. Nothing guarantees immunity from natural phenomena. Gravity respects no one. You can choose to sit down and laugh at this humanness then get up and forge ahead. There is nothing wrong with admitting to yourself that you suffered an unforeseen misfortune at some point. If you had no control over it, do not feel like a total failure for it.

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