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Essay: Forgive Yours

Being Perfect. Then

Tomorrow

BY LIZ WELLE - JANUARY 23, 2

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H E L L O , E V E R YO N E ! H E R E W E H AV E A P I C T U R E O F T W O D O G S E M B R A C I N G
W O R D S O F L I Z W E L L E . B O T H A R E E Q U A L LY C O M F O R T I N G . E N J
K AT E

Given the state of everything in the world right now, there are really only two things I’m certa
will never have a tampon in my purse when I need one, and I am relentless about making
shit. I would just like to brag for one second. I am excellent at constantly remembering everyt
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and nothing I’m good at. (Does it sound like I’m fishing for compliments? Good, I am. Email th
a huge fan at getting stuck in self-wallowing quicksand because thankfully, bless its little
refuses to discriminate and I am a lucky Chosen One. Anxiousness is personally one of my fa
and if they gave out blue ribbons for it I would have more than that one lady whose bluebe
your local county fair every year.

Maybe you, like me, are a delicate anxious leaf. Maybe you have an anxious attachment i
Maybe you let insecurity shine through in 90% of your daily actions. Maybe you process th
than most people and it causes your brain to spin out of control. Maybe you are a disorganize
wreck sometimes. Maybe it’s something else. Whatever it is, babe we just gotta keep on ke
so quick to berate ourselves like being a human isn’t the hardest job in the world and as thou
the most complicated things on this planet? Like they aren’t home to millions of wires an
feelings all just chillin? Like they occasionally may not sync up in a way we deem perfect? W
woulda thought? Not me.

So you’re a mess? So what? Me too. So let’s push forward. Everyday. Slip backward. It’s oka
back up. Examine your behavior patterns. Maybe try and not do things that bring you to a r
where you want to just lay in bed 26 hours a day and never see anyone’s face again. Eat a
yourself a pep talk. You are worth daily pep talks. Misery Bay is the name of a city in Michigan
home to very nice people, it is not the name of your brain.

I know this is hard. You’ll get better at it. You’ll get better at not slipping into the trap of n
everything about you that’s magic; the things that no one else has. We’ll one day be as sure o
as we are that dogs are the greatest thing on the planet. Some days we’ll fall off this littl
building and traveling on. We’ll get back on. We’ll do better. We’ll forge ahead. We have to. M
it all figured out by the time our soul leaves our cute bodies but probably not so just make su
as nice to your heart as possible.

So let’s TRY. In 2017 let’s try to remember regularly (I am not above setting calendar reminde
an outlandish idea to have your own back. Even when you’re like “Dude, I really don’t like
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(that was you talking to yourself). Then forgive yourself when you screw it all up. Cup your o
hands like those really hot guys do to those really hot girls in Tumblr photos and remind yo
spirit is busy growing and it’s going to be a messy trip that might make you queasy sometime
Then have some pancakes.

This time of year is incredibly difficult and quite frankly I am having difficulty not seeing the g
from December to April. My brain chooses on bathing in a hot tub of negativity when we have
daylight a day; it’s amazing. Do your best to stay brave, which should be easy considering yo
You keep forgetting that but it’s true.

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Image of Liz Welle: Voxland Photo