I could not agree any stronger with Oprah Winfrey when she states that “people who lie about their age are denying the truth and contributing to a sickness pervading our society – wanting to be what you’re not in what I know for sure July 2011. In my opinion, this sickness does not only result from people denying their age, but it also result from people denying to acknowledge the fullness of who they are as individuals. As I approach my 40th birthday, I feel blessed to notice that like a coin, each one of us is uniquely who we are because of a divine combination of good and bad; achievement and failure; high and low; – that is what makes us human. Acknowledging our shortcomings, accepting our mistakes, embracing our failures is the secret to contributing to a healthiness that is urgently paramount in our society.
With this realization, I know for sure that I can start to live my life with peace and harmony only if I acknowledge my mistakes, accept my short comings and embrace my failures – in actual fact, as I look back into my past, I realize that during those times in my life when I consider myself to have failed, that was when I essentially passed because it is during that period that I positioned myself to receive the greatest gift of life: grace……or mercy!
I am not implying that we should go out of our way to wrong other people, animals and the planet – what I am saying is: as humans when we encounter failure, life is perhaps actually challenging us to test our levels of honesty. Therefore, from now on I promise to boldly live my life with courage as I dismally and successfully FAIL and PASS the tests of life – this is what I call the law of balance.
I am entering a phase of my life where I am learning that I am not only perfectly balanced, but I am getting closer to expressing my true SELF wholly as I heal and begin to approach life with serenity and self-acceptance – without wanting to be perfect. By the way what is “perfect”? Perhaps perfection lies in the acceptance of the fact that each one of us is uniquely and perfectly balanced no matter where we are in life.
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