Kindred Notes #08

Some of the words that have come up in my journal are duty, changing, become, and worthy.

Welcome back to Kindred Notes.

I have been reading my journal from last summer, and I found these five passages, I would like to share with you:

1.

This moment, in my life, is about my health. It’s bigger than work, than any task, and wish. It’s about feeling better, not about duty to someone else. It’s about the duty to myself.

2.

Life is more than words that define me for a period. A moment doesn’t define me, but this one might define me a bit, because it is changing me for better, to have focus on how I can better be in the future. A way to make my life more sustainable.

3.

I am trying to find what I needed as a child and work towards being that person, the person I needed. To become that person, for my inner child.

4.

I am trying to release my worries of what people think of me. I have always been worthy. I am enough. — morning reminder to the people pleaser inside

5.

I was walking to my bus at Nørreport, and I noticed this well dressed older man, in a dark green, beige and moss toned tweed and his black briefcase. He wore a kind smile as he ran to catch the bus. An overwhelming urge to stop him came over me. I wanted to ask him, with a childish curiosity ‘you look kind, are you kind?’. He looked like someone who had a story to tell, and who would tell it in the way I want to hear it. Calm and savouring each word. As I am writing this, I wish he hadn’t been in a hurry, then I could have interrupted his day. Would I have dared? — 10:56 am, 17 august 2023, at Nørreport Station, Copenhagen

What morning reminder do you been needing?