Today, I feel light. I feel free. I feel at ease.

This feeling may not last, and that’s okay. Today is my day of it’s okay.

This morning, I wrote a poem for Going Barefoot Vol. II: Pieces of Me.

How often do we place ourselves in a space where we think what we’re feeling is wrong? What if, instead, we shifted our mindset to: It’s okay.

I’m realizing that it’s okay to have conflicting thoughts and emotions at the same time. For example: It’s okay to want a partnership and also want to be alone. I am wildly independent, yet I haven’t fully allowed myself to be. The moment I’m doing well, I tend to attach to someone.

I know I don’t need anyone, and where loneliness once held me, I now find a dear friend.

Yesterday, while watching a movie, the main character quoted philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre: “If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”

For so many years, I denied myself my own company. Now, it feels like coming home. I am my own best friend, and that brings me so much peace, joy, whimsy, and completeness.

I hope you are all embracing yourselves and finding joy in your own company.

Happy Monday, everyone!