It has been a very long time since I have sat down to write a blog. I have sat at my computer screen and had all sorts of blogs on my mind but then I stopped because I couldn’t find the words I want to say in the right way. So then nothing was written and now it has been well over a year and a half since I have sat and allowed myself to just write.
Today I was talking with one of my clients and we discussed that things do not need to be perfect. Perfection is the thief of joy. I do not know where the quote comes from but is the truth. Once upon a time ago I wrote blogs all the time (I think up to 3x a week) and I gave no thought to how perfect it needed to be. Somewhere in there I let myself believe that blogs needed to be perfect and so I wouldn’t write anything. They joy I found in writing was gone. Today I decided that I was not going to allow perfection keep me from doing one of the things I love.
We learn this lesson in Encanto through an upbeat happy song where we hear one of teh sisters “What could I do if I just grew what I was feelin’ in the moment? What could I do if I just knew it didn’t need to be perfect? It just needed to be? And they’d let me be?” The visual we get here is that as she is creating things that are not perfect they are beautiful and new and exciting. So I guess the thought today is what could you do if you knew it didn’t need to be perfect? For me it means that I am going to write more.