Accepting Ourselves Means We Must Accept Both The Good and The Bad

Nobody goes through life without both good and bad. Accepting that is empowering.

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I’ve done some stupid, foolish, even selfish things in my life.

From many, I learned valuable lessons. From others, I learned what not to do in certain situations. Truth be told, from some of the stupid, foolish, selfish things I gleaned no lesson I can put a finger on.

Guess what? I’ll make more stupid, foolish, and selfish choices in my life. No matter what and how much I study, or the effort to do good I put out — I’ll fuck it up along the way.

This is not my truth. This is true for everybody. That’s because every single person on the planet makes mistakes, does stupid, foolish, and even selfish things from time to time.

No matter the lessons we learn from those occurrences — we might well repeat the same bad things again. Circumstances likely will be different — but we’ll still screw up.

That’s just part of being human. We’re all perfectly imperfect. We’re also messy, rude, screwy, unusual, and do things nobody else understands.

Despite this truth, there are numerous people — gurus, “experts” both legit and full of BS, professionals, doctors…