Enough is enough

Anyone who knows me knows that no one ever has to punish me, scold me or offer "constructive criticism" when I've made a mistake...I do all those things to myself, and then some. I'm harder on myself than Ryan Seacrest is on his worst day on American Idol! What I do or accomplish is never enough in my own eyes. Even something as simple and mundane as HGTV causes me to view what I've done with my own home as insufficient and less than acceptable. Isn't that supposed to be an entertainment channel? Something to enjoy? A show where you get to make fun of other people for the choices they make and the lives they live? Well, okay, maybe that part is just me...but really. When did a home-decorating channel get so much power that it leads me to come up with a new home project every other week, to the angst of my long-suffering husband? These are just shows where people have large subsidized budgets and professional decorators helping them create the home of their dreams. It's not true reality television...not like, say, The Bachelorette/Bachelor (of which I watch every episode, so no wisecracks here!) which deals with real life situations like helicopter rides over the Grand Canyon and trips to Germany where they play soccer with a professional team and catamaran sails off the coast of Figi with their own private crew...but I digress. Where was I? Oh yeah, HGTV. Anyway, my friend Becky and I have decided not to watch HGTV for one month. Our theory is that watching as much of that channel as we do (we admit to being addicts) has led us to yet another opportunity to view what we have as not enough. And since we're so quick to judge ourselves anyway, we don't need another voluntary opportunity to do so. I myself plan to take that month to look around at all I DO have, to appreciate the blessings bestowed upon  me, and to just BE.