KainAsylum (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kainasylum) wrote,@ 2009-06-09 23:32:00 |
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The Duality of Perfection
When you introduce yourself to someone, you show them the most perfect version of yourself.
Your potential employer, mate, or cool new friend of a friend.
You start with the version you've deemed fit for presentation to the world:
Beautiful, intelligent, charming, and successful.
Perfection is to be expected.
But the more we expect perfection, the more we notice the cracks within ourselves in stark contrast.
And then we have a choice...
to either drown in self-judgment until we give up on stopping the bleed from the ever-widening cracks.
or embrace these imperfections and find a way to thrive, regardless.
We are beautiful because of our imperfections.
And that is how we survive.
When you introduce yourself to someone, you show them the most perfect version of yourself.
Your potential employer, mate, or cool new friend of a friend.
You start with the version you've deemed fit for presentation to the world:
Beautiful, intelligent, charming, and successful.
Perfection is to be expected.
But the more we expect perfection, the more we notice the cracks within ourselves in stark contrast.
And then we have a choice...
to either drown in self-judgment until we give up on stopping the bleed from the ever-widening cracks.
or embrace these imperfections and find a way to thrive, regardless.
We are beautiful because of our imperfections.
And that is how we survive.
