"You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn
to stop expecting impossible perfection, in your
self and others, you may find the happiness that
has always eluded you."
Lisa Kleypas
Our culture tends to expect perfection from us, and if we cannot consistently perform unblemished, then the next hire will be selected. With stress and pressure we use our energy striving for outside expectation. Respect and honor of our own authentic being is eluded.
How different it could be if we were allowed to advance at our own pace, exploring new ideas with job performance contributing to the performance of the whole. Fresh contribution could extend the livelihood of a company more than a sterile environment.
In the Japanese culture, if a piece of work becomes cracked, they fill the crack with gold to restore it to the level of beauty. The Amish are exceptionally creative and yet they deliberately leave an imperfect stitch as nothing is perfect, but God. In Native American culture, every thing created by human hands was embodied by the the spirit of God, so everything was perfect just as it was. And so are you, my lovely ... imperfectly beautiful just as you are.
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