“Life is messy. The secret to a good life is not so much in tidying up life’s messiness, but in learning to deal with the reality of it.” ~KW
Life is a lot like baking a cake … at least the way I bake!
I get egg on my face, flour on the floor, all over the counter and in my hair. The dishes are dirty. The kitchen is a mess. Sticky goo is dripping from the edge of the bowl and off my fingers, splattered on the wall and usually in places we find months after the fact.
In a lot of ways, that’s pretty close to what life is like.
Eggs crack and plans fall apart, life gets gooey and sticky and dirty and messy and everything gets measured in wrong amounts as cakes fall and things are left a mess and we sometimes do things now that lead to problems later we never anticipated.
So instead of trying to cram the messy abundance of life into neat little packaged moments of perfection, (note: take a big breath here because this is a long sentence) learn to laugh at the unpredictable, smile at the inopportune, sigh at the unfortuitous and dance defiantly, but joyously, in the face of all those moments in life that crack and crumble and come crashing down on our heads, reminding us that we are indeed kinetically alive, juggling too much most of the time to even see the floor, but loving the random craziness of it all.
Embrace the messiness of life and life will surprisingly seem a tad less messy … on a good day, anyway.
Thank you for the reminder! 🙂
Made me love this quote more: “Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” by
Hugh Mackay
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I used to be such a perfectionist, but I always attracted friends who weren’t. And they seem to have so much more fun, the really LIVED each moment and never took themselves to seriously. They knew how to thrive when things got hectic and never sweated the small stuff. And I enjoyed their energy, spirit, and love for life. Everything was an adventure. Situations and circumstances never had to be perfect for them to have a good time. How refreshing these type of people are. I’m gradually learning to let my hair down, and learning to relax, and enjoy each moment.
I am the exact same way and very recently have started to see what life would look like if I were to adapt the way of my friends and learn to be ok with the mess sometimes… it’s a journey though. Hope you are feeling good about it and being compassionate to yourself through the process.
Thanks for sharing a beautiful reminder. “Embrace the messiness of life and life will surprisingly seem a tad less messy ” loved these words, Yes, life is messy and great, all at the same time. 🙂