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Blogs > drunken_angel > More than what you know...


drunken_angel 38F
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4/17/2005 4:26 pm

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3/5/2006 9:28 pm
Perfection... such a silly notion

Perfection...such a silly notion!

Sean said I still have a lot of hang-ups. I don't see anything wrong with that. I'm still young; I'm still in a stage in my life where I'm supposed to experience a lot of things, including hang-ups. Sure I'm supposed to get rid of these hang-ups, but I'll do it in my own time. I'm not letting these hang-ups ruin my life. I just don't think anyone has the right to tell me to get over whatever hang-ups I have, simply because they don't know what I've been through, what I'm going through, and what I will go through. No matter how much a friend can claim to be my friend, he or she is not entitled to steer my life, or any part of my life for that matter. In the same way that I am not entitled to steer anybody else's life.

I'm not trying to be defensive. Well, maybe I am in way. It's just that I've always stuck to the Golden Rule ever since, and I expect no less from anyone, especially from my own friends. Well, expect maybe too strong a word. Let's try hope and wish.

I am not perfect and I don't strive for perfection. Nobody's perfect. What I do strive for is becoming a better person, for each day that passes by. The very idea of perfection is silly. In the first place, perfection is sooo Uber-relative. Like nothing isn't relative anyway. Rather than have just one goal in life (that is, to be perfect), I am more attuned to achieving several goals in my life: each goal better than the last. Perfection is an end state. Becoming better each time has boundless possibilities.

Even if I were inclined to the idea of reaching perfection, golly! I would have to be dead if I were to be perfect.

I have hang-ups, true. But these hang-ups have not kept me in my comfort zone. I challenge myself everyday to overcome each one whenever I can. I don't intend to do it overnight because I know that's just a stupid idea. Hang-ups are part of the learning process, as all other experiences are. I will not strain myself to become perfect in the eyes of anyone, or to be perfect for anyone. I will always be someone who finds a better reason to live for each day of my life.

Oh, and one more thing. The only time when we've gotten over all our hang-ups is when we're dead.
-May



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