shoot for the moon.

perfectionism has always seemed to hold us back. it is the greatest enemy to our sweet messy beautiful screwed up human lives. it keeps us down and if you let it, you become the victim of oppression by a silly characteristic you dont actually need. we need to learn how to fight it and rise above and realize that there isnt any person in this world that we need to try so hard to please besides YOU. do you want to wake up one day in your later years towards the end of your life and you never wrote that book you wanted to write; visited the country you so desperately wanted to see;  you didnt go run and jump in that pool or river or ocean because your thighs were jiggly or your tummy wasnt as flat as those girls in that magazine; you never ordered that dessert in fear it would end up as fat somewhere else on your body so you chose to not indulge; or maybe you were like the rest of us who get so wrapped up in people pleasing that you forgot to have a jam packed life full of creativity, spontaneity, imagination, and just flat out radical goofiness. i have a feeling you will wake up on that day without much life left and it will break your little heart. fight back. fight the urge to think twice. dont let others dictate how you will live your life. rid your life of influential cancers like people pleasing. as of late i have definitely been on the path of realization. ive done things, seen things, lived through things, and now i am changing my direction and i dont think i would mind ending up at the finish line i can see. "when i think of you i see babies, a garden full of life, oh and that green, green grass, spread out for miles." if you want to love someone, do it. if you want to start a family together, do it. dont let the thought of age or opinions of others hold you back. that line was from the man i gave my heart to and we are on our path to become parents. the joy you feel when doing what you want and doing it wholeheartedly, oh is it overwhemling but boy is it swell.