embrace your imperfections

“Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.” ~Julius Charles Hare

Striving for perfection, no matter of what kind, will set you on a journey, whose destination doesn’t even exist. It’s important to realize that you already have everything it takes to be happy in life because the only factor that happiness depends on is YOU.

You are the only person on earth that is responsible for your happiness, but also the only one who can truly influence your inner happiness. You can concentrate throughout your life on the things you wish you had, the tangible things that you hope will make you happy, but doing so will make you forget the beauty of life you are already experiencing. You can easily hand over the responsibility for your own happiness to external sources in the hope that one day, material things and tangibles, being seemingly perfect will make you happy, but in the end there will be the realization that all these things will not make you any happier, if you are not able to be grateful for what you have to elicit happiness within yourself.

It’s okay not to be perfect, because “being perfect” is not real. It’s just wishful thinking, encouraged by seemingly perfect celebrities that might seem to be perfect on the outside but when looking at their lives, you can often see that they aren’t nearly as happy as they pretend to be. Striving for a false perfectionism distracts you from being the real you; being who you really are, saying what you think, wearing what you like and doing what you really want to do. Being real is what makes unique, being the real you is what makes you perfect.

There is no need to be perfect when you have the ability to lean back and appreciate the joy of the moment. Life is a wonderful miracle, but unfortunately, way too many people just take it for granted as it is. Once you understand how unstable life is and how easy everything you had can collapse, you start to recognize how worthy your life is and that nothing of it is granted. Once you accept that you don’t need to improve your life, once you realize that you are already perfect, your whole point of view will change and with it the way you look at your own life. It frees you and builds a reliable foundation for you, to start doing the things you truly want to do, not because you are striving for perfection, but because you simply love it.