HELLO, Balanced Flamingo.

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You’re not too anything. When you want to be more or less of something, by all means move in that direction ~ simply because you want to, not because there’s a defect in you that needs to be corrected. It doesn’t serve you to make yourself wrong or bad when you’re not.

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For example, sometimes you think you’re too serious. Some things are very serious. It’s not wrong to be serious. And as far as too serious, I think not: at the root of seriousness is genuine caring. If you want to be lighter and less serious, outstanding! No problem! Do so ~ without making your seriousness wrong. It’s subtle, just a hint of a difference … and it makes all the difference. You feel it now, don’t you? The importance of that tiny shift ~ one of acceptance and kindness instead of rigid judgment. It can sound like this: “I’m more serious than I’d like to be right now. It feels like the moment is calling for me to be lighter.” And so you shed the seriousness for now. And ~ gorgeous! ~ there’s your smile …

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Can you imagine … as you practice this shift with yourself … how it will become only natural to apply it to other people as well ~ not seeing any part of them as defective? Ever? Instead, you see a long line that goes from one extreme to another (from heavily serious to light as a feather, for example), with an understanding that different points on that line are appropriate for different moments. And sometimes people get stuck in one of those points and can’t easily find their way out to a different point on that line, one that would better serve them and all. Who wouldn’t benefit from being seen with that perspective?

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It begins with you ~ and you. Keep tipping the scale of kindness, Balanced Flamingo.

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Present with you,

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Me