Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up by Alexandra Potter

BATB score: 6/10 🌸

Best as: romantic comedy pastime read; everything that is of some meaningful essence, BATB has typed them out under ‘Best Quotes’ below 🫠

Best to: could it be that we are making ‘life’ overly complicated than what ‘life’ intends to be?

BATB lingering thought: not a forty-something f##k up but a thirty-something f##k up; it just gets younger and younger

Best for: anyone who needs to write daily ‘three things you are grateful for’ just to keep them content and sane

Best quotes: “The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but hey handled it. Those women are my superheroes.”

“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.”

“You don’t have to know how you feel, or what you want, or if you’re happy or if you’re sad. Life is full of choices and decisions, and there is so much pressure on us to make all the right ones. But what if we don’t? What if we have doubts and misgivings? What if we make mistakes and contradict ourselves? What if we try our best and fail anyway?”

“Because feeling like a f##k-up isn’t about being a failure, it’s about being made to feel like one. It’s the pressure and the panic to tick all the boxes and reach all the goals; and what happens when you don’t. When you find yourself on the outside. Because on some level, in some aspect of your life, it’s so easy to feel like you’re failing when everyone around you appears to be succeeding.”

“You’re not too old, it’s not too late, and yes you can.”

“This feeling of strength and calm that comes from realizing you’re never really going to know what the hell you’re doing but it’s never too late to start over. Because it’s only when you are ready to surrender the life you thought you were going to live that you finally get the life you were always meant to live.”