Mindful Monday

“Be free.
Do stupid things.
Make ridiculous mistakes.
Mortifying yourself gives others the encouragement to do the same.
Remember, poor choices often make the best stories.”

Coloring page and quote from Jenny Lawson,
You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds

Oh, the things I thought about as I colored this page. I remember how I used to declare, “No regrets. My bad decisions and wrong directions got me to where I am.” Now I can acknowledge that I have some regrets. It’s okay. They show I lived. Would I change things? I might change how I reacted to some things. Mostly, though, I’d change the ways I punish myself, castigate myself, for simply being human.

4 thoughts on “Mindful Monday”

  1. And then some obvious highschool teenager boy with two girls invades my lost-in-a-record-store-hideaway and exclaims his love of such and such band waiving his prized new album in the air and then announces “Oh! We should go over to ___’s ‘cuz she’s got a record player or-some vinyl-playing-player-or-wotevAR.!” and that was when any hope I had left for the future fizzled away that I just wanted to go home!

  2. Great colours!

    One of the ways I get through difficult events is to remind myself that it will make a great story one day!

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