You Have Permission
To Live Your Life
To be yourself.
To not perform.
To let them down.
To draw a boundary.
To change your mind.
To not be okay.
To be okay.
To take up space.
To speak your mind.
To say nothing.
To try new things.
To run experiments.
To fail completely.
To succeed.
To cheer for yourself with outrageous joy and happiness.
To be at your best.
To be at your worst.
To feel what you feel.
To tell others you love them.
To love yourself.
To be different.
To be the same.
To stop.
To quit.
To pause.
To step back.
To race forward.
To strive.
To lean in.
To keep going.
To go to bed early.
To stay up late.
To sleep in.
To get out of bed at a ridiculously early time because you need to do the thing that you need to do.
To eat the cookies.
To fast.
To not know what’s happening in the news.
To take a bath.
To enjoy a book.
To watch a movie.
To enjoy sex.
To jump in a lake.
To be as you are, whatever that is, right now.
To say “next”.
To move on.
To stay.
To change.
To stay the same.
To struggle.
To grow.
To laugh your ass off.
To savour that cup of coffee.
To keep reading.
To breathe.
To have a great day.