When do you stop wanting what you can't have?
When do you lean back and serenely smile, accepting yourself for who you are and what you are, unconditionally and irrevocably?
Will a time ever come that our lust for perfection will dwindle? That though we continue to drive ourselves through our goals and ideals we no longer subject our external selves to the pain and madness that is the result of our striving for unattainable flawlessness?
It's hard to say. We try the best we can to be the best we can, and it often is with the best intentions that we damage ourselves most severely.
And though our cognition is most likely intact, and though we are most likely sensible, intelligent people in many other aspects of our lives, we continue to fight reality and everything that we know in the hopes of becoming physically superhuman.
Will a time come when enough is enough and we can just enjoy what we've already been blessed with? When we can push ourselves intellectually, physically and emotionally while still maintaining an underlying and unwavering love for who we are?
I don't have the answer to that. But I sincerely hope we figure it out soon.
Till next time,
Steph
As always, I love what you have to say. You started things off with some quality, eloquent questions. What struck me most, however, was when you wrote : it often is with the best intentions that we damage ourselves most severely.
ReplyDeleteThat's definitely something to think about, and I think that one bit of insight begins to uncover a lot. Thanks!