Those Imperfections...

Haven’t you ever talked bad about someone only to realise that you too have done that same mistake or possess the same bad habit? It has always been quite puzzling and bizarre how people are blinded by the general judgements of someone that they have failed to even spare second thoughts for him/her. It may even be right to regard the general society of people as having the ‘herd’ mentality because of how much importance we place in what other people do instead of let’s say setting a trend ourselves. What I probably meant when I used the word ‘herd’ was that people think in terms of the society that they are in, lacking the much needed individuality.

Notice how people have always used either ‘half full’ or ‘half empty’ to describe, let’s say a glass of milk. Humans, as we are subjective and opinionated, always like to see things the way we want it to be instead of taking the effort and coming up with the right answers to the questions in life. It’s like trying to imagine something while you’re blindfolded or learning without understanding, you just can’t be bothered taking those extra steps to reach what’s within your grasps.

Don’t you remember that one time when you asked yourself “ What would have happened if I did this? ‘’. Did you regret your decision because you were too afraid to make that step forward? I too, looked back on my decisions a couple of times, trying hard to fill those voids left by the ‘what if’s hoping with a flick of my non-existent magic wand I could just turn back time. Would I have done things differently? Yes. Can I do anything to turn those bad decisions into what was desired before? No.

We, as flawed as we have always been, also tend to do or say things we never intended to do only to realise it a little too late that what we should have done was indeed the right thing to do. Why did you have to apologise when you weren’t the one making the mistake? Why did you have to say yes to that very favour even though you clearly didn’t want to do it? Really, it’s just within us to do something we never wanted to do in the first place. Well of course, from a different perspective, this can be a good thing, people who are merely creatures of habit doing something different for a change. As the old saying goes, old habits die hard.

What I’m getting to is the point that we, as humans, will never be perfect, and will always have these flaws within us. It’s only a matter of whether we show what’s really in our nature or try really hard to find a cure to these flaws hoping it might be within our grasps someday.

The question is “Did you do something out of the ordinary today?”.