Live and Learn

I have had such a strange week.

Yesterday I talked to my dear friend McKayla about my week. It was a great conversation and very much needed. She said a few things that really helped me. After listening to all that I was feeling she said this, "Well look at it this way Cindy, now you know yourself a little better than you did before."

McKayla is so positive and uplifting. I've thought about our conversation a lot. I do know myself a little better. When I'm taken out of my safe little bubble and am in situations I've never been in before, I get to know myself better.

This week I learned something new about myself. I learned that I'm really not as strong as I think I am. I thought I was stronger, but when it came down to really facing it, I wasn't as capable as I thought. I am anything but weak, but I guess until I'm tested, I don't really know my strength.

I also learned that it's easy to be hard on myself. I was SO frustrated with myself. I can't be so hard on myself. I just can't. What good does it do? I just have to learn and then look forward. But I have to make changes according to what I learned. So that's what I'm going to do. 

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense"  -Ralph Waldo Emerson