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I’m making all new rules for myself. A total redo of everything I’ve ever said I would quit or not do or definitely do.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I’ll say exactly what I mean and not what I hope everyone wants me to say. This will disappoint people I love, I’ll do it anyways.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I’ll spend hours doing one thing at a time instead of bouncing between many.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I will let myself desire intimacy and closeness and wild passion without the pressure of the pair bond relationship escalator.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I vow to keep breathing and keep not taking a drink one day at a time as my minimal efforts of aliveness. Everything outside of these two things is allowed to change at any time.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I will watch movies in the middle of the day whenever I want to.
I’m making new rules for myself. My dedication and reverence to collective liberation is unwavering and woven into everything that I do. It is not separate from myself, it is of me and of the people. It is not something I quantify or prove. It is not something I use the internet to paint a picture of. It is within me and around me at all times. Quilts and writing are my portal into and out of this.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I will let myself love without abandon and with no attachment to the outcome. I will let myself love the people in my life in a way that makes them feel buoyant and expansive.
I’m making new rules for myself. I have a private prayer practice and a public prayer practice. These will begin to morph. What is on the tip of my tongue will flow like a river.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I will let grief run through me and know that it was a sign of how well I loved, not of how small I am.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I will let myself use social media when I feel like it. I will deactivate sometimes, take long breaks, leave for extended periods of time, and no longer announce it. I will let myself pull a Michael Jordan and retire and come back better than ever, willing to say I needed that then but don’t need it now. I might even try a new sport.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I will take breaks from things without telling everyone about it.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I can change my mind and not tell anyone. I can change my mind and tell everyone. I can change my mind anytime I want.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I will not let cultural and communal pressure or sway dictate what I write about, share about, or speak about. I will follow my own timelines for processing and sharing. This will be hard, I’ll do it anyways.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I will grow my hair out and stop dyeing it.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I will keep writing every Monday because it works for me and I love to do it.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I will drink water.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I will be gentle with myself when my nervous system is on fire instead of taking the second arrow and shaming myself for having a nervous system on fire. This will be hard, I’ll do it anyways.
I’m making all new rules for myself. God as my employer I will report to the good spirit with my new rules and make manifest what god sees fit.
I’m making all new rules for myself. I will talk about and sing about god without apology or explanation.
I’m making all new rules for myself. The rules can change at anytime.
And in the words of Sister Corita Kent : THERE SHOULD BE NEW RULES NEXT WEEK
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