Monday Muse

When you’re starving, you’ll settle for whatever crumb you can manage to find.

When you’re bored you’ll seek out the foods that make you feel good.

When you’re satisfied you’ll only seek out the foods that nourish you from the inside out.

Because settling for a morsel or an occasional treat is great, but it isn’t your day-in, day-out sustenance.

People are the same way: be sure you’re seeking after people who nourish you not because they’re the “yes” people in your life, but because they challenge you to live beyond a minimal standard of morsels of attention, or crumbs of pleasure.

You’re worthy of a full meal that doesn’t just whet your palette but that satisfies your soul on more than one level— it’s not reduced down to only pleasure, or attention or a warm body in your bed so you aren’t alone..

Morsels of attention have their place, crumbs of pleasure do too— but living on crumbs and morsels will only create a malnourished life.