I have this habit of obsessing over a blog for days at a time. And by "obsessing," I mean literally starting at the most recent post and working my way back to their very first "hello, how are you?" post.
This is kind of embarrassing to tell you, because it takes a lot of hours scrolling through internet pages to go from start to finish on an established website.
But there's a lesson here, I promise.
When I finally get to the first post, it's always very average.
A picture she found on the internet, a recently found quote, a note to self.
No stellar Photoshop actions, no glamorous head shots featuring her new lipstick color, no ground-breaking list of 100 ways to use vinegar to clean your house.
Just a perfectly normal person taking a stab at the blogging world.
I love this.
Everything is progression, a steady yet slow improvement.
Tonight I picked up my fresh September issue of Real Simple magazine and the first thing I saw was this:
"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency." --Natalie Goldberg
No need to stress about the fact that I didn't write on this blog for the entire summer.
Everything is progression.
I have nowhere to go but up.
(Now I need to just publish this post before I spend another hour analyzing it...)