~Marilyn Monroe
It’s
the New Year and many people have made resolutions… some of which they have
already broken and feel extreme guilt over! I decided, after reading this article,
that my one and only resolution is to be unapologetically me. I’m not perfect, but I am the perfect me.
This
topic actually makes me laugh because it reminds me of my favorite line from
the movie “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” where Mark Darcy stumbles over his words as
he tells Bridget that he likes her, finds her perfect, even…just as she is.
That is the ultimate compliment of being unapologetically yourself… when you
are loved for your imperfect perfection.
I
try to be a good person. I have my goals, but they stretch beyond a year to
year thing. I already eat well and am in better shape than I have been in my
entire life, and will continue with that lifestyle change. There is really only
one thing that completely holds me back from being myself, and, maybe it really
is just part of being me- I am still in the process of practicing the art of letting
go. Being unable to let go puts me in an obsessive state where I am unable to
function. I have to remind myself that if I face rejection, it isn’t actually
rejection of me…it is the other person rejecting an idea in their own mind.
There is nothing I can do about that. Things that anger me, in the long run,
have nothing to do with me at all. My mantra, “Let go,” has helped me considerably
over the last few months. I have no control of others, only myself, so “Let go.”
I will be the Queen of Letting Go this year. If something angers me, “Let go.” If
something makes me sad or depressed, “Let go.”
The
good news is, I no longer feel like I have to constantly beat myself up over
things I cannot control. That “Let go” mantra really does free me up to be me. No
need to pull out the “New Year, New You” resolutions that are usually too
stringent to continue more than a few weeks, and, if I have to be honest, the cliché
is tired and smacks of degrading language insinuating that there was something
wrong with the “old you” in the first place. I have to see the perfection that is me. I have to be
happy and love myself, just as I am.
Now,
on to the hunt for that Mark Darcy…