January 3, 2017
imperfect – i’m perfect! Thank you Baron Baptiste for setting me straight on that word. What a difference an apostrophe makes! Everyday we choose how we look at our selves, and what we say to ourselves. Do we use the apostrophe or not? It is our imperfections, those cracks that Leonard Cohen wrote about in Anthem, that let the light in!
We are perfectly imperfect! Our (perceived) flaws, often, are just stories we tell ourselves, and those stories can become walls, blocking our connections, our growth.
How about thinking of “I’m perfect” as “I am enough right here, right now”? If we don’t embrace the reality that we are all a “work in progress”, then at any given moment our stories can turn into….I can’t, I’m not ready, I’m not smart enough, I’m not creative enough, I’m not good enough, I need to know more before I……and on and on and on. Ring a bell?
Believe me, starting this blog, if I would have listened to the perfectionist in me…you and I would not be connecting. Instead, this page would not exist, because really who am I to share my thoughts? I am merely a speck of dust in this universe, and in the cosmic scheme of things this page is even less. And yet somehow I believe the art of becoming IS life. Opening our hearts to new thoughts, new possibilities, questioning our current values, our status quo, that’s when life gets juicy. Right?
Someone said to me recently, if you don’t like your writing, lower your standards. In other words in whatever I do, allow myself to be less perfect! Call it what you will vulnerability, courage, faith.
As far as I know we only get one shot here on this earth, so are we going to embrace our imperfections and jump in as we are? Or, at least start by dipping our toes? Or are we going to let the fact that we are imperfect paralyze us from living? I’d like to think of our imperfections, our cracks, as the very things that bind us?
Everyday we have the choice to be a wall or a wave.
Share your thoughts! Namaste
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