- by Laura Buckler

Scrolling through all the Monday morning memes filled with willowy blonde girls complete with long wavy hair and scrunchy hat telling me to live my best life! Don't settle for less! Be a warrior goddess and take over the world!

Make ALL the big life changes as if it's all as simple as throwing out expired yogurt from the fridge. Hate your job? Just quit and find your passion! Not having 67 orgasms every week? Obviously you're with the wrong partner and you need to leave and find someone who will treat you like the queen/goddess/supermodel/Mother Teresa you think you are.

Friends, I'm here on this Monday morning to tell you that it's ok to be just ok. It's ok if you're heading to your normal job with your normal coffee and a regular old tuna sandwich for lunch. It's ok if your house is a mess, like always, because human people live there. It's ok if you're not taking over the world, because what does that mean anyway, and it's ok if your only life goal for today is not to strangle your partner for being SO. DAMN. ANNOYING., even if they do give you 67 orgasms per week, which no one does, because there's laundry to fold and trashy tv to watch and bad snacks to eat once the kids finally go to bed.

It's ok to be a normal person with a normal job and a normal life filled with normal people. You don't have to be a world changing superhero goddess with a thigh gap and flowy hair to be a valid person. I'm ok, you're ok, we're all ok. Now go rock those yoga pants at the office, because really, is anyone paying you to be skinny? No. No they're not.

Happy Monday!!!

Laura "Jam Girl" Buckler is the proprietor of Cottage Country North out of Wiarton. We are delighted that she allows us to publish her very relatable bursts of passion for our readers to share.