Hail to the good things

I was thinking about how something that could be really positive (New Year’s Resolutions) often just becomes a measuring stick for self-hate, for how we could do it better, or as evidence for all the ways we’ve “failed” already.

I was thinking that this is bullshit (because it is). I was thinking that what I really wanted was just to tear up/do away with all of that old negative stuff and instead step into something new.

There will always be someone, somewhere, some system, some internal or external voice, telling us that our lives need to be better before they can be considered “worthy.”

When we realize this, and understand that the game is rigged (and that it’s not very fun to play) then we can open up our lives. We can hail to the good things. Hold them close. Recognize them. Slip them into our pockets to be found and re-found again, and remembered, and cherished.

Write down all the messages you received that told you who you were supposed to be, before you even had a chance to find out who that was for yourself.

Tear them up.

Write down all the things that are lovely and beautiful about your life—the eyes you can read with, the smell in the air, the fact that you have ever known love.

Write that down, and hail to the good things.

Stop playing rigged games.

Stop playing the game of “better.”

Play the game of life from a place of rich gratitude for the good that is there.