Take Me As I Am

Review time at the old job today.  It's really a weird experience.  Our office is pretty good about talking about what's going well and what's going wrong all the time, but it's still daunting when it's time to sit down and talk about yourself.  My whole life I have heard the same criticisms -- I can trace them all the way back to high school.  I won an award once for being "most dependable" -- not Miss Congeniality.  I'll always try to be a better person and be as good as I can be at my job.  But really, at the end of the day, I'll still be me.

 

Breathe

In trying to improve certain areas of my life -- my stress level, my aching back, my age creeping up on me...I have been playing with the idea of taking up yoga. I took my first class tonight and survived! My aching back is well, back and I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get out of bed tomorrow morning.

One of the things the teacher said at the end, when we were all trying to relax and get, er, centered, really got to me. It doesn't have to be pretty or perfect, you just have to keep breathing. That applies to life just as much as yoga, don't you think?