Weaknesses

Been quite a while since I wrote last. I've been thinking a lot lately about how often life gives us chances to overcome our weaknesses. It may be that or that we end up making the same mistakes over and over again until we don't. But either way, time has a way of making us better people if we are open to learning from our mistakes. Growth is only possible if we don't commit the same mistakes, only then can we go on to cracking the next code, overcoming the next hurdle. It's like a video game, if you will: we have got to pass the current level to get to the next one.

In understanding this and applying this, of course much reflection is needed. We need to be aware of what is it that we are weak at, what is it that we are committing mistakes and stopping us from going to the next level. But that alone is not enough. The distinction needs to be made in identifying a weakness and overcoming it. They are two seperate things, and one without the other is nothing: Identifying a weakness is merely a first step in the path to personal and spiritual growth: the next steps are charted subconsciously or consciously over time as we encounter same or similar situations and don't make the same mistakes.

It shouldn't be needed to be said that we all are imperfect, and perfection is quite like happiness. Its a pursuit, a journey, not an end or a destination. And only by understanding this, which many of us seem to forget every now and then, can we be open to accepting ourselves with our faults gracefully, as we accept ourselves with our strengths.
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TRB