Being perfectly imperfect is living from a place of authenticity, expressing the full essence of your being in constant evolution.
What is imperfection?
It is not a thing. Can you draw a clear line as to where perfection starts and where imperfection ends? It is not palpable or measurable. You can’t eat it or smell it, but nevertheless, you can suffer from it. Imperfection is a perception of what society considers not fitting into the box. What is a perception? It is the way something is regarded, understood or interpreted, consequently emanating from beliefs that are often rooted in extrinsic conditionings.
What is the box?
The box is a man-made projection of subjective rules and references about how things should look like and be done. Who are the people who decided one day that you should behave like this, look like that or do things that way? Absolutely no-one you know and especially no-one who knows who you are, what you like, what you need and what makes you feel good or not. Therefore, when you try to fit in this box, you take on societal pre-cooked perceptions and apply them to yourself and your surroundings. It’s like trying to get a square in triangle-shaped hole and beating the square up for not fitting. Does it mean that the square is less perfect than the triangle?
When have you felt the most bond and compassion with others?
Was it when they were showing you one of their ego-constructed perfect facets? Or was it when they showed and shared what was beneath it? When we shut ourselves off from revealing our true nature, we grow distanced from the people and things that bring purpose and meaning to our lives, on top of creating a separation within ourselves. Showing what’s beneath makes us human and able to relate to each other. Being your authentic self also means showing your vulnerability. Although we perceive vulnerability as a weakness because of society’s perception, it is in fact a place of self-empowerment.
Perfection is being perfectly imperfect
You are the expression of your soul having a physical experience. The spirit is always in a state of becoming, ever-changing, it is creation in constant evolution, with no start and no end. Perfection presupposes that something is fixed and finished, done beyond change and beyond further development or creativity. Therefore I would say that real perfection is embracing your perfect imperfection, where there is no better or less than, but where there just is. The courage required to operate from this place is to go beyond the conditioned perceptions that don’t belong to you and allow yourself to “BE.” This is where authenticity resides, and there is no such marvel as being authentically yourself. It is expressing the full essence of your being in constant evolution.
So live wholeheartedly, boldly, imperfectly, accepting and loving the full version of who you truly are deep inside: that authentic self that radiates from within (check this post about self-love). As Lisa Nichols said: “Turn the lights up. As your light gets brighter, you gonna disrupt some people. Then you just look at them and say, I’m not dimming my light – I’m just gonna hand you some shades.”
Here’s an excellent Ted Talk, “The power of vulnerability” by Brené Brown. She incites us to have the courage to be what we label imperfect.
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