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This One’s For Me: Ruth’s SOLS

Ruth Ayres

It’s been one of those days where I’ve spent too much time wishing I were something else. Wishing I were older, with the luxury of experience. Wishing I could walk away without caring so much. Wanting to be less sensitive. More patient. I think we all battle days like these. The days when we feel we aren’t good enough. That our work doesn’t matter. We can’t win.

And then I remember, I don’t have to be more of something or less of that. I just have to be the best version of myself. I have to take a deep breath and pull it together. Because the world doesn’t need more of something or less of that. The world needs more people being themselves. The world needs more people happy with the person they were made to be.

So right now, in this slice of the day, I’m accepting that I’m a little over-sensitive sometimes; I get worked up about things I should let go; I miss the mark some days and lose focus on what truly matters, letting ridiculous things annoy me. But it’s okay, because I’m lots of other things too. And right now, I’m going to focus on being the best me I can be, because this is good enough.

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9 thoughts on “This One’s For Me: Ruth’s SOLS”

  1. Hope you don’t mind – but sent these words to my team this morning. We’re all feeling that end of the year bummer of not having done quite enough for some kids…. And this is what we all needed today.
    Thanks.

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  2. This is going to age me, but remember that old Amy Grant song:

    All I ever have to be is what You’ve made me
    Any more or less would be a step
    Out of Your plan
    As you daily recreate me
    Help me always keep in mind
    That I only have to do what I can find.

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  3. I’ve printed out your post so I can put it next to my desk and read it every day. Thanks for sharing this. (I’ll try to appreciate being me, but really I want to grow up to be you!)

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  4. “The world needs more people being themselves. The world needs more people happy with the person they were made to be.”

    I want to own these words. I marvel at your ability to be so articulate about muddled feelings.

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  5. These are words that are ‘speaking to me.’ I think that the more we invest in something, the more likely we are to feel this way once in a while. So, it’s no wonder . . .. Thanks for being a familiar voice.

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  6. Thank you so much. I needed to read these words today. I had one of the days you described (except for wishing to feel older.) I will follow your example: I will focus on being the best me I can be.
    Thank you for being you.
    Terje

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  7. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, we all have the same thoughts and it’s nice to know we aren’t alone. I want to keep your phrase “Be the best me” in my mind when I have doubts. You continue to inspire me. BTW I received my SOL prize today, THANK YOU!

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  9. Well, what I’m just going to say is bravo for your thoughts. Yes, we all think those thoughts & most especially in the frantic days of the end of school. Eek, we say, how can this all happen? And yet, it does. Nice thinking to take care of yourself.

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