I was reading an article this morning and it mentioned Gwentyh Paltrow and how she adores her ex’s current girlfriend (Dakota Johnson, in case you are curious, and yes that is the 50 shades of grey lady). Anyways, she was saying that a lot of people find it odd that she can be so loving to Dakota. She said that she tries to think of the ampersand. Actually this quote is so good let me look it up verbatim.
“I always think of the ampersand sign – what else can you bring in, instead of being resistant to or being made insecure by? There’s so much juice in leaning in to something like that.”
That’s good right?? When I was seeing Rolling Stones dude, I had to sort of come to the same realization. It’s tough when you know there are other girlfriends in the mix, but if we can unlock the fear part of ourselves, what else can we unlock? And once we let go of that fear isn’t there something more powerful there? Makes you unflappable. And that seems nice.
Also, speaking of Rolling Stones dude, just like his sweet lil nickname, he’s back loooooool. Rolling right back in. Basically if you ever hear any one complain about being with someone who doesn’t want to commit but will spend the majority of their free time with you? That’s him. More commonly referred to in the wild as a “f*ckboi.” Last time in this dance I was real ensnarled, convinced love is just a power game. W
I’m trying to be really intentional with days and thoughts. I am trying to recognize when I go off into la la land daydreaming and reel it back. If habits are just the discipline that we fall back to, then who’s to say I can’t retrain my baseline work ethic at 28 years old?
There was something else I saw this morning on Insta from this dude I’m sure I’ll be posting more about. He posted a pic on why to take cold showers and the gist of it was ‘because they suck! and doing things that suck will make you a better person!’ — sounds like a crap life but like he ain’t wrong.
Despite a long night, I still got up and did a 25 min. run up a 15% incline so I’m coming for you, Tuesday.
C-B-Doing Thangs 