WEEKLY AFFIRMATION 09

This is why I’ve always believed grace and accountability were connected.

Illustrated by KIRU.

This morning I sat down at my desk, a good five days late on writing this blog post. I pondered on the thought of whether I should catch up on some of the stories of other writers I follow, or maybe put a dent in the 64 stories sitting in my general bookmarks (have we learned nothing from the previous situation we were in?!), or simply start writing as previously planned. Well you may not be a scientist, but I’m pretty confident you can guess which course of action I went for.

Being late, or falling behind is not an experience I am unfamiliar with. Just last week I wrote about how I was just starting to feel caught up in life, and then some actually crazy shit happened later in the week that would have made me feel like giving up on everything if it had not been for the many positive experiences I’ve built for myself, as well as the hard work I’ve done to safely surround myself with positive influences.

You see sometimes we fall down. Sometimes we make mistakes. Sometimes we pretend everything is fine when it’s not. By the way, that’s called lying. But what I’ve found is that when I am honest with myself, specifically about the areas in which I have the opportunity to improve my performance, the power in my faults has to come under…