On Not Being Perfect

I was chatting with Nicole awhile ago. She mentioned about this particular scene in Desperate Housewives that struck her. I’ve yet to watch the show though. Anyway the story goes something like how nobody likes to show other people their weaknesses. We pretend that everything looks perfectly rosy on the outside when it’s actually the other way around on the inside. The character in the show tired of always being a failure finally breaks down. Then she founds out that she wasn’t alone in her misery. She finds out from her other “perfect” fellow housewives that they too were apparently not that perfect after all. One of the housewives mentioned how they shouldn’t keep these things from one another and how they shouldn’t be afraid to tell each other their weaknesses.

I agree. While we all have our own insecurities, we shouldn’t be ashamed to share it. It is what makes us more human after all, don’t you think so? Sometimes sharing it can actually be beneficial in more than a lot of ways. Being open about it can help us cope and deal with it more easily. Having someone to sympathize with us eases the burden as well; what seemed to be a heavy load becomes a hundred times lighter. Besides keeping everything to one’s self can be dangerously explosive and destructive at times. It’s not healthy. You have to accept yourself for what you are, with all weaknesses included. If loving the self requires that you accept your insecurities then so be it. If accepting one's insecurities requires that you be judged for it then so be it. You can’t take away the fact that we will always have our weaknesses. Nobody’s perfect…a cliché I know. But true right?

Just a side note. I think I spoke too soon. TNT lost to the Gins. =( Shucks. Eric Menk was extra strong today, weirdly strong if I must say so. I can’t help but think he’s on steroids. I sound bitter I know. Hehe Nah he’s probably just pumped up and too hungry for the crown; gotta give him some credit though even if I don’t like him that much. If only TNT’s first win hadn’t been nullified, it would have been tied 3-3. Then TNT could have won the series. Oh well.