Friday, August 27, 2021

Tips for Happiness

No. 5: Nobody is Perfect!


Life Story: Shanti, a 40 years old narrated to her spiritual guide about the imperfections of others. The guide had generously allowed her to pour out all her bitter experiences. She kept on repeating the imperfections of others each time she met her guide. One day, while sharing an event, she happened to say, “partially that was my mistake too”. The guide paused for a while and ironically said, “so you can make mistake! This is the first time I heard it from you.” She immediately replied, “of course, I can. I am a human being. I have so many imperfections.” The guide immediately encouraged her to share some of her imperfections in life. She began to share another side of her life, which she never shared with her guide. From that day onwards, changes began to take place in the life of Shanti. She found the inner peace that she was desperately looking for.

Perfection is a virtue. From the religious teachings to the social teachings, we find everywhere an earnest appeal to remain perfect. It is also a desire of many, who want to be perfect in order to be happy. But humanly speaking, it is not always possible to remain perfect. We make mistakes. We commit sins. We fall into temptations. We find some elements of imperfections in the lives of many great personalities. Sadly, we find some people find extremely difficult to accept their imperfections. They want to remain perfect!

Pope Francis once said, “there is no perfect family, no perfect father, no perfect mother and no perfect children. We are all imperfect. When we accept others imperfections, we accept our imperfections. Similarly, when we accept our imperfections, we accept others imperfections too. And in this process, we make our life a happy life.

So, let’s make a decision to accept our imperfect self.  It will make a huge difference in life...

 

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