Flawed and all

Our brain quickly picks up on our habits, they quickly transform into character. Now it’s easy to adapt a flaw, even more weird cause it doesn’t require much time or energy to sustain it. Oh the unfairness of it all! Let me not digress.

Having experienced early segregation and rejection, chasing and validating my thoughts and actions became an addiction. Maybe it became part of me. A flaw in my character or then I would say, ‘it’s just who I am’.

I later learnt that there’s a thin line between justification and transgression. One is good, the other bad. But how do you even the scales? How do I ensure that when I identify my flaws, it doesn’t consume me?

Paraphrasing Jordan Petersons’ words; That in order for us to be good, we have to acknowledge our potential to be dangerous. I agree, for only when you fully know and understand what you’re capable of, your evil nature; its degree, your flaws; its limits, then you can truthfully say with confidence that you know yourself.

The process of working on yourself, learning who you are as a whole, healing, requires one to tame/control that scary, dangerous and flawed part of you. There’s no escaping it, therefore don’t wait for circumstances to force you to confront it. It is better to intentionally do it yourself. Remember, there’s no shame. We’re all flawed love, deal with it. Cause if you don’t, the likelihood of you burning it all, including yourself, is prime.