Your True Nature -- Perfectly Imperfect

One afternoon, about seven years ago I was driving with my boyfriend at the time to LAX airport. And I'll never forget that moment when he turned to me with wide puppy-dog-like-eyes and said in awe: "You're perfect!" It was as though the world stopped for a minute and I thought to myself, "wow, finally, someone gets me. I've arrived!" I smiled a huge smile and the words that came out of my mouth were, "I'm sorry but you're going to be disappointed, I'm perfectly imperfect." For a while this man couldn't see my flaws at all. I could see his but I loved all of them. It was the first time I loved someone's flaws and it was liberating. However, there came a day when we were no longer able to see each as perfectly imperfect and our relationship ended. From this I learned a valuable lesson: I can love imperfection and I can also be seen as perfect. It made me wonder, what is this viewpoint that makes someone seem perfect? When I was little my parents told me if I got straight As they would buy me a horse, something I wanted more than anything in the world. I realized at that young age that if my grades were perfect I could get what I want. So I strived and worked hard but I never could accomplish the straight As. I almost got them when I was a senior year in college. When all my friends were partying, I was staying up late at my last attempt to hit straight As. And I did get As in all classes except for my favorite one where I had received a D on a test because I didn't give...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news