perfectly imperfect

well let’s just dive right into the polarity of perfection and imperfection. it’s a good way to engage the quest toward being the person we want to be, living the life we want to live, and it’s big enough to come back to time and time again…

[pronouncement] perfection is in the totality. anything less than that is imperfect…it’s missing something.

the central flow in our thinking is to see something separate from its totality…it’s a dissection, cutting into pieces, looking at the parts. thinking creates imperfection. this process can go on forever.

the central flow in our heart is to see things in unity. self unity as well as universal unity. perfection is in the whole! so of course we are all imperfect humans (one of many, separate and incomplete). and still yet we are perfect selves!

so perfection and imperfection are all about perspective–the eye and heart of the beholder–and imperfection as a pejorative is simply a mistake of perceptions…

imperfection as a cheer, as a compliment, as a m-f battle cry is…perfect!

how this thing gets played out in everyday life is just the opposite, of course, (funny how that happens with polarities) what with the power of statistics and the use of “average” to connote “normal”, never mind that no one actually is statistically average and thereby normal.

so (that word again) we have a situation where anyone who isn’t statistically average is somehow imperfect, different and thereby…

[cut to ani difranco's "cool-poem" my i.q.:

when I was four years old
they tried to test my i.q.
they showed me a picture of 3 oranges and a pear
they said, which one is different?
it does not belong
they taught me different is wrong]

…wrong.

so there you go. if you aren’t God, you are wrong, imperfect, not to be trusted; even though, of course, you are the most perfect example of yourself that ever existed or ever will!

and even though right here right now your particular imperfection is needed more urgently by more people than ever before.

okay…that’s it for post #1. if you have any thoughts please share…especially thoughts about how perhaps your unique imperfections have one time or another turned out to be just exactly what was needed to help someone (or someonehundred) out of a difficult situation, or how one of your crazily imperfect ideas was exactly the ticket in a creative crunch.

and remember…it’s the flaw that makes the diamond, and there’s nothing worse than a perfect a-hole.