If I feel bad inside about something I did, I will be less hard on myself today. I cannot change all at once. When I beat myself up on the inside, eventually I look for a culprit. I can’t bear the feelings I am having so I want to blame them on someone else. I feel my indiscretions are unforgivable. Why? Why do I go to such a self blaming place? It’s as if the child inside of me who felt bad gets warmed up and cannot get out of a sad mood. Today I will be less hard on myself. I will realize that the world isn’t out to get me, I am not the center of everyone’s universe and most people are too busy thinking about themselves to want to spend their time focusing on me. Everyone makes mistakes, so what. I will let mine go, knowing I will make more, and will let those go, too.

I can allow myself to make mistakes and I can allow others to make them, too

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson