The Complicated version:
WARNING: this post isn’t simple, short, or uncomplicated. But it’s necessary so bear with me. My name is Becca. I am an over analyzer, an over thinker, and I complicate just about everything. In an effort not to over think this post (who are we kidding, I’ve deleted and rewritten this 27 times in 40 minutes), I’ll get to my point... I had an Ah-Ha moment five or so years back. My moment was simple (ironically)- every time I stopped trying to make something work, every time I stopped thinking about how perfect something needed to be, every time I stopped and stepped back, everything or the thing that was causing stress and frustration in my life was already just as it was supposed to be; simple and uncomplicated. Please note, in most cases I was FORCED to stop complicating things due to exhaustion, risk, or frustration which in hindsight was a large part of any stress I was under. Since I’ve become AWARE, it’s been a slow process, but I’m finally becoming an “expert” on u...