Nobody's Perfect

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
~ Henri Matisse


People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
~ William Faulkner


no matter who we are, where we're going, or where we've been, we all struggle. everyone has battles. everyone, at one time or another, faces the every moment, to day, to year, trials of existence. such is life. sometimes simple. sometimes complicated. when we wake up with challenges, we wake up with choices. to either overcome all that holds us down by going against what opposes us - or to continue sitting quietly in the foul stench of our own shit, while at the same time surendering ourselves to fear and failure. life shifts, spins, and relocates. as we do. we all have the ability to switch our fear of failure into an energy to overcome any trial. just as sure as we all have a spine.
~ Hot Water Music

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To a *good friend

Yours truly would like to believe that she is (a) not a vegetable and (b) has a spine and (c) that you are subjected to (a) and (b) above as well. In other words, no one's perfect. Hey, everyone's born deficient in some areas (although arguably some more than others) but let's not argue about anomalies here. What's a small setback or even a few tiny setbacks along the way? We all live and learn. Besides, it is self-defeating and delusional to imagine that your friends would necessary do better in the same situation. Of course, being friends, they shld thank you for your confidence in them, assuming and provided that the confidence is not an excuse to wallow in self pity.

So get a grip on yourself. Move. You either swim or you drown. And as yours truly's self-proclaimed *good friend or more so, because you have self-proclaimed yourself as so, you are only allowed to SWIM. *deadpan*

No other way.

Enough said. *dryly*

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