Beautiful Discomfort

Floral and paisley print high-low (made by me), Neon slim belt (flee market, cant remember price)

Sometimes we need to be thrown off balance. I read this quote once “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” I believe that is so true. Many times we get so comfortable in our little victories and illusions of our lives we forget how big and complex the picture is.

Allowing mediocrity in your life is a futile thing, because most times ‘enough’ is comfortable and we most times don’t have to work so hard and make too many sacrifices to…get by. Many times we want excellence and we want a great life but we find ourselves too comfortable in our own little boxes to go out and get it. We end up giving ourselves silly excuses…I didn’t have the opportunities, it wasn’t the right time, I wouldn’t have succeeded anyway, I’m better off not risking anything…okay so maybe sometimes these statements might be true, but most of the time I think we are, or at least I am too damn comfortable to step out of my comfort zone and get what I want.

The thing is we probably all want more than we are willing to sacrifice to get, and I also believe some sacrifices might not be worth it, but settling for mediocrity when we are perfectly able to achieve excellence is a sad waste of our talents, purpose and time something I doubt anyone really wants to waste.

Silver cross sandals (flee market cant remember price), Forest green nail polish

I ultimately want to achieve excellence in everything I do, and I realized now that being a little or a lot uncomfortable for a moment is worth it at the end of the day, I love this dress because it reminds me of this, this dress is hand stitched by me, yes, I’m talking cut with a paper scissor and stitched with a needle and thread, it was A LOT of work, I doubt I slept very much that night, and yet when I wear it and people tell me how pretty it is I know it was worth it. I achieved an excellent piece of work (ok for my level of experience with sewing) because I refused myself the comfort of just buying a damn dress and actually making one myself. It reminds me in moments when I feel myself getting comfortable that I need to push myself, I need to swim against the current not laze in the Jacuzzi with a Long Island ice tea from Bistro…(my dream Saturday afternoon day) in a Lalesso swimsuit…okay okay back to the point…evolution or metamorphosis is not a comfortable process just look at the butterfly as it emerges from its pupa…just stress, but it embraces the struggle and I’m sure each time a butterfly fly it thinks that was worth it.

Thanks for reading my lovely butterflies

Listening to No Mediocre- T.I ft Iggy Azalea

Xx Kae – stay inspired