O.K.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 11:40AM
Hey! How are you today? I'm O.K., or okay, or (as I prefer) okey-dokey.
I'm still knee deep in Soul Restoration, house cleaning, and disliking winter.
I came across this quote the other day (really, Kelly, another quote?). It's a longy, but a goody. I hope you enjoy it...
“I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it — I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes.
Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know — but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me.
However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me.
I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.” - Virginia Satir
I like "Okay". It's simple. It's easy. It's enough, don't you think?
...and speaking of O.K....remember the Perfect Protest with Brene Brown back in September? She has been mentioned a lot by the ladies over at Soul Restoration. Have you read her book yet? I haven't, but I really want to. Anyway, the mention of her made me want to go back and look at the video she made (I'm somewhere in the middle). Check it out! Hopefully, it will put a smile on your face today. :)
(p.s. Can you believe it's February already? Thank goodness! For the next fourteen days I'm going to be playing "heart" and seek (looking for hearts in unexpected places) with my friend Chrissy. Doesn't that sound like fun? And, just the ticket for taking the winter blahs away! )
Hope you're doing okay!
Reader Comments (2)
oh my kelly...
that is AWESOME! i love this heart. i love all it.s tattered, peeling, imperfect wonderfulness!
thanks so much for sharing.
can i use it on one of the posts and link it to you?
happy tuesday.
c
Dear Kelly-I just love this quote-I read it really slowly-twice. It really reflects where I am now in so many ways. I am glad that your Soul Restoration class is going well...And I love your heart too BTW...so beautifully tattered and scattered and rugged and beautiful...Hugs to you on this cold over there it seems night. xxx