be bad a stuff 🕳👎
be bad at stuff
Hi Friends! If you have DM'd me, been a safe 6 feet around me, or just connected to my mind's eye telepathically within the last 4 weeks you will know that I have taken up rolling skating. I am deeply terribly bad at it, and I love it!Â
There are other kids on the street learning how to wobblily ride their bikes and Dad's running after them to catch them if they fall. And then there is me! With knee pads and wrists guards learning how to roller skate!! I fall often, I can't stop that well, and I can go really fast but it looks kinda crazy. I know when I get on my skates I am going to spend the next hour feeling shaking, and unsure, and probably scraping my knee. So when I fall I am not that disapointed, I know I'm going to fall. Or when I don't make the turn I was trying to make, I am fine. I go in knowing I'm gonna be not great on 8 wheels for the next little bit,Â
When was the last time you did something you weren't good at? When was the last time you stepped into the role of beginner or amateur? Said to the world "I am about to be bad at something" and then go be not great at it!
Feel afraid, feel nervous, feel shaky wobbly and like you can't stop and then crash! And then get back up. Try again. Know you're about to be not great at something and give it a whirl just because being alive in the world is about trying stuff, and being bad at it and fucking up and then doing that over and over and over. When we fall and scrape our knees we have the opportunity to get back up and try again. Maybe (probably) fall again. The more time we spend being bad at stuff, the less devastating it will feel when we fuck up at stuff we're good at, or an expert in, or just ok at.
I love you all
xx
phoebe
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