intentional living – Dear Miss Reckoning,

🔥 A Reckoning Non-Advice Letter 💌

✨ For anyone who’s ever felt too slow, too weird, or too behind to belong—this one’s for you. 🐌

✨ Sloths aren’t lazy. They’re intentional. This post reclaims slowness as a form of quiet perseverance. 🦥💪

✨ Through playful metaphors and personal storytelling, this letter explores how strength in stillness can be a radical act of self-trust. 🌱

✨ You don’t need to catch up. You might find what you need by moving at your own pace.

💌 Dear Miss Reckoning,

I feel like I’m falling behind. Everyone else seems to be moving all the time, accomplishing things all the time.

How do I catch up?

—Falling Behind

🪞 Dear Falling Behind,

If there’s one thing I’ve been waiting to do in my life,
it’s use a sloth reference in an answer to a letter. 🦥
🎉 Here is my moment. Now is my time. ✨

I now give you my manifesto on why we should all aspire to be sloths. 📜
These are my entirely unscientific, wildly unproven thoughts about sloths.
Again, I’m making most of this up from hearsay. 🤷‍♀️

🦣 Did you know:
Sloths used to be as giant as elephants? 🐘
But somewhere along the line, they were like: nah, that’s exhausting. 😩
So now they’re small. 🦥

💡 Life lesson:
We don’t need to be bigger than life.
Sometimes the smaller path is wiser and more resilient. 🌱

🪑 Did you know:
Sloths spend their time almost 90% motionless? 😴
They are the boss of sitting with their own stillness. 👑🧘‍♀️

I’ve tried to sit with my own stillness.
It’s rough.
Like, super hard. 😬

💡 Life lesson:
There is power in stillness that most of us never know,
but we can find it if we start a few minutes at a time.

Sloths are rocking it. 🎸

💪 Did you know:
Sloths can hold themselves up with one arm? 🦥💪
Probably not.
Because sloths don’t brag about it. 😌
They just have quiet strength. 🤫

💡 Life lesson:
Just because I can doesn’t mean I should.

A life lesson I’ve been trying to trend (with zero readers and zero success 📉😅).

At the end of the day, sloths are loveable weirdos,
exactly what I am. 💖

One day my 8-year-old drew a picture of a “preppy girl” 🎀
(a term I didn’t even know was still around).
I asked her if I was preppy. 🤔

She said no.
Then she looked at me for a long time, 🔍
like she was trying to solve the mystery of ‘mom’.

I said: “I’m too weird to categorize, aren’t I?”
And she nodded her head, as though relieved she’d figured it out,
and said emphatically: “Yes.” 🙌

Then I silently celebrated because my life goal was complete. 🎯

Sloths move at their own pace. 🐢
They don’t try to impress anyone,
and they’re impressive for that very truth. 💫

With my back issues, I often move slow.
People? Can. not. handle. it. 😤

The annoyed looks. 😒
The rushing around me. 🏃‍♂️
The slamming doors in my face. 🚪💥

In general, society doesn’t like slow. ⏳

But I’ve learned to be:
🛤️ The little engine that could.
🐢 The tortoise.
🐌 The slug.

I just keep moving.
Slowly.
One foot in front of the other. 👣

Then I look around—everyone else? Rushing.
Yeah, they look really stressed. 😰
No thanks. 🙅‍♀️

So how do you catch up?
You don’t. ❌
You slow down. 🧘‍♀️

At least, that is my absolutely not professional advice. 🩺🚫

Please don’t yell at me over my wrong sloth facts. 🫣
I did my best. 🫠

May we all channel sloths moving forward. 🦥✨

Scorched, signed, sent,
🔥🖊️💌

-Miss Reckoning

As always, your unqualified, non-professional, non-advice friend

Note from Miss:
I’ve sought a lot of professional help, and I’ve found it beneficial in my own recovery. Please always seek what you need from professional avenues.

But know, you’re never alone here.

This post is for emotional reflection and storytelling purposes only. It is not professional advice.

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