It’s time to start embracing your chaos

Chaos is everywhere, in everyone we see and almost everything we do.

We think that we have everything under control but they don’t.

We think that others have everything under control but we don’t.

We use planners and to-do lists and act like we aren’t stressed out on everything that we have to do.

We go to social events and pretend like we have our lives together and that we are really peaking.

But, let’s be honest no one has it together. In fact, I think the more you get to know people the more you realize that nothing is as it seems.

Rarely does something happen without a hitch. We mess up turning in an assignment or say the wrong thing to someone.

The fact is that we can spend all of our time dedicating ourselves to looking like perfection or we can just own it.

Imagine how much simpler things would be if we spent more time embracing the chaos around us instead of acting like we’ve never messed up before.

Maybe if we spent less time being perfect and more time just being, we would be significantly less stressed.

Humbling yourself, remembering that perfection will never exist can help us lead our best lives.

Remember how much something actually matters, look around and decide how big of a deal something is.

If you fail a quiz, you can spend time acting like the questions were too hard or the teacher never taught you everything or you take some responsibility. Even if it was your fault, it wasn’t that big of a deal, in the grand scheme of things.

I couldn’t tell you the first test or assignment I failed and I definitely don’t remember the first time I said something embarrassing to someone.

I could tell you the last time those things happened but soon I won’t even remember, because it honestly doesn’t matter.

If it won’t matter in the next five years, then why waste time and energy on it now?

You could waste your life grieving mistakes or you could gather yourself together and remember what you want out of college.

Sometimes I worry what people will think of me, what I wear, what I like, I forget that I am allowed to do things as I want to.

You don’t have to stick to one style of clothing, you can change it up everyday.

You can like going out and also like doing puzzles. You can skip out on whatever events you want, even if it’s to crochet something.

You can take a nap everyday if it suits you or spend all your time talking about football.

As long as you are not letting everyone else decide who you are and what you can do.

The world is crazy and things are busy right now, planning out my week sometimes makes it more stressful than not doing it.

At the end of the day I know I will do my best to do what needs to be done, the more time I spend stressing the worse it’s going to get.

I know that it can be hard to let things go, but maybe it’s better to just embrace it and take change as it comes.

Roll with the punches as my dad always said. We can spend time focusing on all of the bad stuff or we can let it roll off our backs and into the past.

Sometimes we just need to move on.

Life is chaos, nothing is ever together and it never will be.

It’s best to just look around and embrace the chaos.

Prioritize your health both mentally and physically and keep the past in the past.