hi all. today I realized something. I was in the park and I saw a little girl who followed her father (I guess). I just thought of how absurd it would be for anyone to say to her or think about her that "what, can't you talk properly??" or "you dropped that!" or "you've got to run faster" or "can't you for once draw something that looks nice??" It's like, anything she does or tries to do, her parents are so proud of her. They will smile at her, and encourage her. Even if she "fails" at something, like trying to catch a ball and not being able to, or trying to walk and falling. We're just happy that kids try to do things. It doesn't matter if they "fail". It doesn't matter that they can't do a lot of things. We're just happy about the things that they can do. And proud of them. And love them to bits. They're our treasures and our most prescious gift in life. I was just thinking that perhaps it is somehow absurd of us (as adults) to think that we can go through life without failing, falling, tripping, breaking stuff, losing something, and so on. Shit happens. To everyone. Sometimes it may even be our fault. But that's life. We live and learn and we fail. We don't always succeed. We aren't perfect. We don't have perfect skin or perfect hair or perfect clothes. None of us. It's an illusion to think that we'll always cope with life. But not coping is okay. It makes us human. We have to be honest about things. We have to stop pretending and live for real.
I also saw a couple of adults who were playing tennis, or sort of. They were playing with a tennis ball and two rackets, but just on the grass, not in a tennis court. And there was no net, and the distance between them was much shorter than in real tennis. But that's okay. It doesn't have to be "perfect." It's real.
In the Olympic Games there's this Swedish wonderful woman who's been like the big gold hope for Sweden. She came eigth. That's okay. Loads of people who are sitting at home in their comfy sofas might think that 'it's really bad, she should have taken the gold'. But that's just being hypocritical. Life doesn't work like that. Most people don't win gold. They are still okay! They don't have to be best.
I may not be best. But that's okay. I'm real.
