Perfection.
And the drive to attain it.
I'm seeing it as a growing epidemic in our Crazy World.
We are in such a media saturated world, and we now know more about each other than ever before. More of the appearance and outer world of each other anyway.
We all know what we all eat, when and how hard we exercise, how often we change the sheets and what's inside each other's vanity drawers.
It's a world gone mad.
Strangely, it's in pursuit of "keeping it real". Yet I am not seeing liberated, free-from-stress faces or lives.
I see lives strained by the unrealistic pressure to do more, do it faster, and do it smarter.
And I see Anxiety growing at a phenomenal rate.
I've been reading Marion Woodman's "Addiction to Perfection", and I'm loving her comment that, "It is easier to try to be better than (we) are, than to be who (we) are" (p61).
In pursuit of being who we are, rather than trying to be better than who we are, my question for us all is, "What can I do less of today?"
While we are Doing less, let's feel ourselves Being more.
DO LESS, AND BE MORE.
Arohanui.
Contact me: Lorraine Dodd: Counsellor in Howick, Auckland 0221 874 057, through the contact section http://lorrainedodd.wix.com/lorraine-dodd by email nurturinghope@gmail.com or Private Message me through Facebook
