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Perfectly Human.

You know those zoom meetings where you are only half there? You are listening but your mind is somewhere else? The meeting that you really don't think you are going to get anything out of but you know you should be there?


Brilliant Imperfection. Eli Clare the author of Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, was facilitating a conversation about Brilliant Imperfections and what that meant and where it came from. He was the keynote speaker for the Oregon Suicide Prevention Conference just a few weeks ago. During the conversation, he asked the group to come up with every word we could think of that was connected to the word "brilliant". He then asked the group to do the same with the word "imperfection".


After several minutes of words being dumped in the chat, we were then asked to reflect on what we discussed in the form of writing, song, or some other way of expression in a quiet spot for 20 minutes. The words I reflected on were "perfectly human". Here is what I have reflected on over the past few weeks.


Perfection is absolutely devastating. There is no way to ever achieve perfection because we are in an imperfect world. What I have realized is that as I strive to be better, do better, achieve more greatness, the bar continues to rise just out of reach. The higher the bar goes, the more is expected and the more difficult "perfection" becomes. Becoming great becomes almost an addiction. Perfection becomes an addiction.


As I was meditating on this concept this morning, I was reminded that there are always going to be distractions. I am always going to need to try again. There is absolutely no shame in being human. I have this intrinsic value because I am alive. I will never be able to achieve perfection and that is because I am perfectly human.



 
 
 

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