I am not perfect....

I am not perfect. I have never claimed to be. Perfection? Who wants to be perfect? Not me. If I were to claim that I were perfect, that would mean that I was as good as I could possibly ever be. I know for a fact that is not the case. I make mistakes, get angry, frustrated, lonely, and at times, lash out because of them all. After all, you know, I am this thing called a human being. 

What I do claim though, is to love life and the people in it. Yes even the people that are unbearable to me. Because they are human, just like me, and they are probably hurting, just like I do at times. There is no perfection when it comes to the human race. We are constantly growing and evolving, molding ourselves into the universe as it grows and evolves as well. So when I get a nasty email from a coworker about something that was beyond my control, yes I want to tell her just where she can put that email, and sometimes I might be a little snarky, but I always feel badly afterwords. After all, even though she may be lashing out at me, more times than not it's not because of anything I'm doing. She may be hurting, or upset, or frustrated (or maybe I remind her of the girl in high school that used to piss her off in gym class). Who knows? what I do know is she is human, just like me. 

The important thing is not to be a vision of perfection. It's to learn, to grow, to evolve and come out better in the end. In our lives, a lesson will be repeated over and over and over again until the lesson that is meant to be learned is actually learned. What do ya know? Hard headed humans. I don't know about you all, but I can be so hard headed that I have to repeat these lessons more times than I'd like to admit. I guess it's OK though, I'm just going to consider myself really really smart and educated in those subjects and move it right along. Here's to constant growth!