Life is perfectly imperfect is it not? Quite frankly I think it would be rather boring if it were not. We humans thrive on challenge and adversity. We grow and sharpen as we are forged on the anvil of life. And how we grow is different for each of us.
Inspiration for writing comes from the strangest places. A recent conversation with a co-worker lead to a discussion of how people cope with challenge life presents them. Someone we knew had just given birth to twins.
From there, the conversation went to how people handle challenges like caring for twins or a child with challenges or some other challenge in our perfectly imperfect lives. The conclusion being, they just do. That’s just life.
Each of us is given our own successes and challenges to meet. Those given to us would not be right for another, but somehow they are right for us. They provide the opportunity for us to learn and grow through the ways we choose to accept and meet them. And they seldom arrive, as we would have envisioned. Instead they find us along the perfectly imperfect path we follow in life.
No one envisions the arrival of a child with challenges or an illness with which to cope. We certainly dont fall into love expecting the heartache that follows when love fades. Nor do we anticipate fully the struggle that may be necessary to succeed in our jobs or business. Yet those are a part of our everyday lives and we meet and deal with each as it arrives.
Notice that the challenges given are unique to each person. No two are identical. What you are able to grow from may crush another. How often has someone said to you, I dont know how you cope. If you ask yourself the same question, the answer most likely is that you just do, that’s just life. The challenge is absorbed into your perfectly imperfect life. You mold your day around it so that it becomes just another way you do things like getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth.
While we all inwardly strive for perfection, we also accept that perfection will probably never be achieved. As we grow in life skills and wisdom, and accept that’s just life, we find instead that it is the struggle, not the achievement, which adds depth and meaning to our perfectly imperfect lives.
Warmest regards,
SherryD
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Comments
Life is tough but the most important thing you have to do is be positive. This is easier said than done, but if you can see the light at the end of a very dark tunnel you will be able to get through anything.
Yeah, perfection isn’t for us, I know if we all were perfect, there wouldn’t be any fun in achieving our goals or targets. And yeah, if we’re facing any challenge in our life, we can probably handle it nicely because nature know us better than ourselves but only we let down ourselves in achieving those challenges, we’ve to make sure we stay positive and strive to get better in every challenge we face.