Graceland. Utopia. Land of Milk and Honey...what is your perfect place?
For so many, it is a place that is steeped in luxury; dripping with gaudy jewels and solid gold everything! For others, it is quiet and calm which they relate luxury to. Me? I am on the fence about what perfection is. Part of me rebels against perfect anything. I love a flaw. I love imperfection and character. I gravitate toward the odd and unusual. Part of me understands the need for standards to measure against, only if to appreciate something.
I listen to the ideals of perfection and cannot help but wonder if our faults are in our need to outdo, be better than, and be greater at stuff than our fellow Earth mates. Why do we strive for perfection? Straight A's in school, 100% on tests, Top of the class, Head of the job, Top executive...all of these things are no better than their counterparts of B's, below 100%, average student or employee.
It is the emphasis WE put on things that give them their value. What if one day we said that blue wasn't blue, instead it was yellow! What chaos it would create! What turmoil to say that marred and scratched is the new beautiful and that pristine was wretched to look at! Do you see the point?
Graceland was a home to Elvis. It was his palace because it was full of things which he loved, where his heart was and where he hung his proverbial hat. All the things he cared about were there. It is the value he gave Graceland that made it important. Our lives are no less important than the person's you deem most important in your eyes!
If we start believing our own worth we will understand our value and know that we are no better than anyone at all. We are all equally lucky in life. We all have something that is perfect in our eyes. We are all worthy of love from someone! To that someone, we in turn, are perfection!
Every person has to believe he or she is valuable, in order for others' to see it too! Open your eyes and look around and you will behold perfect beauty in the flaws of being uniquely you!
