Be patient with yourself

May 23, 2020

My creative offering today - to bring a little patience to your day with love from me to all of you out there.

Being patient with ourselves and the life that continues to move around us has been hugely changeable over the last weeks and months of the pandemic that is C19. Often being patient with our own selves, our closest relatives and our dearest loved ones, especially during these times of heightened stress, is a challenge or at times non-existent. 

Frustrations and anxiety, if not checked, can run to unnecessary and unhealthy highs so I know that I’ll actively keep on trying to stop every so often, in between work and other life commitments to breathe, do a bit of yoga, get some fresh air where I can and appreciate the value of being patient with myself before I can be patient with the rest of the world.

Be patient with yourself

If your dreams aren’t doing what you’d hoped they would

If you’re letting the light back to fight off your dark

If you’re sharing less than you did before 

If you find yourself in a creative mess

If it’s only air that you crave at this present time

If you feel like you’ve let someone down

If you’re not sure what makes you feel alive

If you’ve forgotten how to be loved

If you only want to remember

If you can’t take the call

If you can’t say goodbye


– Maria Cairnie


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