Accept Your Imperfections.

 We  all are everything we say we are not, and we all are everything we sometimes don't want to be. We are fallible, our nature will be fret with foibles, and our lives will be laced with less than sound decisions.  Don't beat yourself to a pulp over it. It hurts!  Accept that we are created imperfect and strive for your own definition of  righteousness and just self. Do not allow someone else to write your definition. Tell yourself who you are and act upon it.  Know your mission statement is sealed through your actions, your words, your miss-steps, your misfortunes, your selections, your opinions, your decisions, your shortcomings and your abilities to recover.  You encompass a slew of positives and negatives, positives not always good and negatives not always so bad.  This is what creates the beauty of the human being. Love the quirk. Hate the quest for idyllic person/self, there is none. Keep your vehicle of life moving.

All human beings have their own set of idiosyncrasies and imperfections. Acceptance is realization and full cognitive awareness that you are willing to  take someone  "as is".  I find that people that don't accept others do not accept themselves either and remain in a constant state of self-loathing because they never measure up to their own unrealistic expectations of who they should be. I witness these people unhappy, bitter, and mean-spirited. They may never stop to wonder what drives their disdain, for they are too caught up in their own web of self-hatred to ever love or accept another. They blame everyone else and claim victim status every chance they get.  They weep endlessly, remain in a purposeful funk and just stay there nursing their cocktail of shame and regret while the paddle down the river of whoa on their self inflatable boat of discontent.  The sun never shines in their world because  their weather report is always a mix of clouds and high percentages of rain. Why? Because they don't accept themselves "as is".  Being  "as is" doesn't mean you are marked down or less valuable, it means you are human.  When these people fall short of their own self-proclaimed ideology, they grow depressed because they are reaching for a height that does not exist.

I am happy to be "as is".  I love being a little eccentric, a little off-kilter, a little different.  I accept myself wholly.  Do you?


Truth be Told: Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexities and injustices.  -Paul Tournier