Smile

Smile

That is what I was taught growing up. To smile when your heart is breaking. I read tonight in my Al-Anon meeting that I don’t have to do that anymore. That today I will be honest with myself as I live each day. I will not pretend to feel what I do not feel or to want what I do not want. 

Instead I will look searchingly and fearlessly at myself - 

My feelings

My motives

My actions

I can then learn to love myself when I’m willing to learn who I am. 

Shakespeare had it as: This above all. To thine own self be true.