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Imperfectionist New Years Resolutions

Writer's picture: Celeste BoudreauxCeleste Boudreaux
  1. In this new year, I promise that I will let myself get carried away by my passion projects, to lose all sense of time or hunger, to let hour upon hour fly away in the service of my latest creative obsession.

  2. Despite jumping right onto projects that hold my interest, I solemnly promise to put off for years culling out old clothes in my closet, doing things like painting, and reading my stack of books-to-be-read.

  3. I will pick up the house only when guests are coming over, close the door to the messy private areas, and move clutter to just outside of camera range on Zoom calls.

  4. I will practice the spiritual discipline of the sacred evening bowl of ice cream.

  5. With great effort and fortitude, I will forget where I set down my iPad and spend an inordinate amount of time looking for it.

  6. I will be socially awkward and occasionally clueless.

  7. I pledge to wear two pairs of glasses on my face in lieu of bifocals.

  8. I will be embarrassed at my hopelessly dorky dance moves (but maybe perform them in public anyway?).

  9. I will proudly display my boney bumps in odd places; smile big to show off my overbite to best advantage; and gracefully caress my pear-shaped figure and waist bulges like Vanna White indicating fabulous prizes, rather than corseting them in Spandex.

  10. I hereby give myself permission to be as imperfect as I actually am, in hopes that this will allow me to stop pretending to be as perfect as I wish I were.

Amen.



Blank spiral notebook and a fountain pen

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