Perfection. Not in the Foreseeable Future

Some of the following ‘lessons’, are whatever is you see fit to call them, were beyond me. Yes, they do sound all soft and deep, and intelligent, but what they are actually trying to say is beyond m reach. Or maybe I’m just too slow.

Well.

Like in page 15 where it says, “Accept disgrace willingly. Accept misfortune as the human condition.”

Accept being unimportant and do not be concerned with loss or pain.

Okay.

Does this mean we, as human beings, are supposed to somehow not feel, have no views or reactions to being unimportant, and blind ourselves of such gravities we call loss and pain? Why is that?

And is it possible?

To not possibly be concerned with loss?

In the case you lose a loved one to a random and out-of-nowhere befalling accident or tragic death, we’re supposed to ‘not be concerned?”

But I think I might have taken things a little too far. As for the being numb to pain and loss, I plainly don’t understand the chances of that ever happening if we have any say in it.

As for accepting disgrace and misfortune as the human condition, I may have a certain interpretation to that.

In life, expectations are our downfalls. Expecting certain positive outcomes and then finding out the low harsh reality makes the truth that much more unbearable. When you are sure you are going to get into the Ivy league college you’ve pined for since birth, when you get the rejectance letter, it seems as if the earth itself has crashed and burned into ashes and sharp edged pieces of fallen hopes.

You were so sure, that when the bad news came, you could barely believe it, and it brought great doom.

If you lack high expectations (or any, for that matter) the outcomes of the future will have that much less impact on you for the bad, and more for the better. Had you been clear on whether you would get into the Ivy league and just held tight with no balance between a certain outcome, the rejection would be a pity, but you wouldn’t be so up high that the fall would be an accelerating hurl to concrete.

As for the fact that you happen to be accepted, well surprise, surprise for the better.

I think that’s basically the meaning of it.

We are not perfect, and everything is not always going to go our way.

So if we don’t plead for things or make ourselves up to believe we are naturally psychic and good will come upon us, there won’t be that much misery and heartbreak in the end.