Tue 2 Jan 2007
Hereby Resolved: To Continue in My Resolve
Posted by Erin under Pensees
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This will be Year Three of my attempts to execute the following resolutions:
1. Do not try to save anyone
2. Do not try to prove anything to anyone
3. Do not try to accomplish anything
These resolutions provide me implicit permission to stop shoulding and striving. Their crass absolutism has tasered, although not killed, the not-enoughing. Now that I don’t demand (as often) great triumphs and strides and rescues and performances from myself, I don’t feel the need to demand them from others.
To my own amazement I have not yet melted into a lazy, apathetic puddle of greasy cellulite and maudlin self-regard. Maybe by 2008.
