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I have an absolutely beautiful fairy figurine, given to me by someone as a thank you for recording a song for them. I love to admire it, but the closer I look at it, the more mistakes I see.
It reminds me of people. It seems to be much the same. I can admire and love from afar, but when I get to know them and look closer, I see all of their mistakes. Is it wrong to do that? I don't know. But it's wrong to expect all of you to be perfect, when I don't even know what perfect is.
I have a low tolerance for people low in skills that I have, which I think is quite odd. Most people want to be better than everyone, but for some reason I seem to want everyone to be as good as me.
Then again, I am loathe to acknowledge my own weaknesses, and so instead of admitting that I have them, I avoid it entirely. Maybe I wish I was perfect.. but I'd probably be terribly boring if I was.
I need to work on loving things for their mistakes, and tolerating people and things that aren't perfectly skilled or 100% original. I can sense people's motives and it irritates me when they don't have a motive that pleases me. It really shouldn't be any of my business, and I should just leave it be. After all, everyone has seperate motives and that's what makes us different.
But somehow...
I want to fix the figurine.
It reminds me of people. It seems to be much the same. I can admire and love from afar, but when I get to know them and look closer, I see all of their mistakes. Is it wrong to do that? I don't know. But it's wrong to expect all of you to be perfect, when I don't even know what perfect is.
I have a low tolerance for people low in skills that I have, which I think is quite odd. Most people want to be better than everyone, but for some reason I seem to want everyone to be as good as me.
Then again, I am loathe to acknowledge my own weaknesses, and so instead of admitting that I have them, I avoid it entirely. Maybe I wish I was perfect.. but I'd probably be terribly boring if I was.
I need to work on loving things for their mistakes, and tolerating people and things that aren't perfectly skilled or 100% original. I can sense people's motives and it irritates me when they don't have a motive that pleases me. It really shouldn't be any of my business, and I should just leave it be. After all, everyone has seperate motives and that's what makes us different.
But somehow...
I want to fix the figurine.