The Imperfectionist

2015-05-01

The reason I’ve been able to
produce so much
is that I’m not a perfectionist—
I’m an imperfectionist.

I’m confident that everything
I say
can be improved upon by others,
and that’s my great strength,
because I know that it won’t be improved upon by others
unless I take the first step.

When we only do things which please us,
or don’t frighten us,
after a while fewer and fewer things please us.

Over time, our circle of options diminishes
until we are prisoners in gardens of our own making.

The more decisions you make in your life,
the more times you act,
the more certain it is that you will be wrong.

To be fulfilled we need to
recognize,
all of us,
that the world doesn’t owe us
a living—
rather we owe the world
a living.

And in the brief time that is
given us,
we must somehow learn to give ourselves away.