It's OK to not be ambitious

in #life6 years ago


It’s OK to be quiet

It’s OK to take the time you need for yourself away from the shouting world


It’s OK to move to the quiet, low-rent town where old ladies stop in the street to talk to you

It’s OK to do nothing

It’s OK to do something


It’s OK to revert back to your inner hibernating animal or baby mind

It’s OK to enjoy the creature comforts of warmth, food, bed and nothing else

It’s OK to shun the world with it’s big egos and holidays to Fiji


It’s OK not to follow the crowd

It’s OK to not be a millionaire by the time you’re 30

It’s OK to have debts

It’s OK to not pay debts


It’s OK to go back to nature

It’s OK not to play the game they want you to

It’s OK to not have a car

It’s OK to ride a bicycle and walk to places


It’s OK to spend a day staring and talking to the flowers

It’s OK to spend days watching the rain through the window with a cup of coffee

It’s OK to be unscheduled


It’s OK to spend days reading books and watching films

It’s OK to have little projects that you work on that will never earn you money

It’s OK to not consume


It’s OK to take time 

It’s OK to not rush

It’s OK to live in the steady rhythms of your body’s natural cycles


It’s OK to not be in the city

It’s OK to be in the city too


It’s OK to see the world as a circus around you

It’s OK to be a spectator


It’s OK to take a part time job that doesn’t lead anywhere

It’s OK to take time to heal

It’s OK to be unemployed

It’s OK to be semi-self-employed

It’s OK to be nothing

It’s OK to have nothing


It’s OK to be an element of your surroundings

It’s OK to be a creature that doesn’t read the news


It’s OK to go slow

It’s OK to look inwards

It’s OK to cry if you need to

It’s OK to sing when you want to

It’s OK to be alone

It’s OK to be in company


It’s OK not to be ambitious

It’s OK to have your own ambition of inner peace

It’s OK to live in your own world

It’s OK to live in your imagination

It’s OK to be as gentle as a child

It’s OK to be kind


But most of all, it’s OK to be you.

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