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Sep 7, 2023Liked by Eleanor Anstruther

This reminds me of my mother yelling at me for using the words she sent me to school to learn. πŸ™ƒ

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I'm a recovering perfectionist. I still have to do a lot of untangling of how I got there, but this really spoke to me.

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Sep 7, 2023Liked by Eleanor Anstruther

The joyful paradox of being just like everyone else and completely unique. Loved today’s not perfect perfection. Thank you x

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❀️

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You are not the same as everyone else or you'd never be capable of being self aware on the level you express. Weekly. You are different. And it's Ok to be different. Some of us have to be or this universe would be a pretty boring place. Perfect is boring. Useless even.

And those mushrooms and vision quests? Those explorations I have found to be very helpful in connecting more deeply with our universe in ways being perfect can never do. They "Woke" me up. That's what the red pill is for. ;)

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πŸ’ŠπŸ„πŸ™‚

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Another great piece.

I'm a kind of spur-of-the-moment perfectionist. In that sometimes if I start some bit of housework, meaning just to do it quickly (and not very well), I end up seeing another things to clean or whatever and get absorbed into cleaning (or whatever) everything well. But it's not my default. Usually I'm pretty slapdash, a "yeah, that'll do" kind of person. I sometimes wonder if that's a good thing?

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β€œThat’ll do” is a kind of brilliant philosophy for life. Also β€œGood enough”. I think it allows for upward motion while being realistic. My girlfriends & I have for a long while been channeling β€œMediocre Woman”. We’re yet to decide the outfit.

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Sep 7, 2023Liked by Eleanor Anstruther

Two curses. Both I know very well. Like you, I got the better one.

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