The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Hemingway
Most of us are trying to live an authentic life. Deep down, we want to take off our game face and be real and imperfect. There is a line from Leonard Cohen’s song “Anthem” that serves as a reminder to me when I get into that place where I’m trying to control everything and make it perfect. The line is, “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” So many of us run around spackling all of the cracks, trying to make everything look just right. This line helps me remember the beauty of the cracks (and the messy house and the imperfect manuscript…). It reminds me that our imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together. Imperfectly, but together.
Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
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This is so good for a hyper perfectionist! It helpts to “explain” why when I do make a mistake I feel this sense of relief…not as if I’ve let myself down in the sense of failure, but that I’ve let myself down to be myself and breathe freely again.