Dear Aurora,
So I made a commitment to doing 10 April Love posts last month.
It’s the first day of May and only got to complete this last love letter today.
In the past, I would have felt really bad about not living up to my commitments and beating myself up about how I could have done better, how I failed my readers, how I failed myself.
But the most important lesson I’ve learned in the past few years is forgiveness, particularly self-forgiveness.
It’s easier (heck, even lazier) to just have knee-jerk reactions like annoyance or negativity when something doesn’t go your way. There’s more effort needed when you need to consciously choose to treat yourself with love and kindness, to go against this instinct.
So I forgive you, Aurora, for not getting it done. I forgive you for making time with family, afternoon naps and cracking open a new book a priority. I forgive you for not planning ahead.
Sometimes we slip and it’s okay. Sometimes things don’t go as planned and that’s okay. We are human and it’s okay. Just try again, just start again, with love and kindness, day by day, breath by breath.
Thank you for making a commitment to writing these 10 love letters. Thank you for showing up. Thank you for being honest, vulnerable and real. Thank you for treating yourself with forgiveness when it would have been easier to just slip into your old patterns of blame.
I’m looking forward to seeing you grow, to seeing how your life unfolds. It’s always been a fun adventure when we’re together and I can’t wait to see what’s next.
I love you.
Love, Aurora
So that’s it for April Love 2016. In April, I challenged myself to write 10 love letters. Here are my letters to love, home, intuition, future me, courage, money, fear, heart and change.
