Sometimes, the tea just nails it, and today was one of those days.
I’ve been drinking a lot of tea this winter, and this was the message on my fourth tea bag of the day: Without realizing who you are, happiness cannot come to you.
This truism hits so close to home. I’m in a year a reinvention and re-imagination. Who am I really? What do I want really? What makes me happy really?
To answer those questions, I am trying to remove the “shoulds” from my life — I should have accomplished this, and I should look like that — and replace them with “I am.” Phrases such as “I am carving a new path, and that’s ok.” Or “I am on a far different journey than I ever would have imagined, and I’m happy with that.”
Or even, possibly one day, “I am whole and complete, and I am in love with that.”
Today, the tea was there to keep me honest and guide me on my path.