Morning Mantra

[andrewducker]

To be repeated at least once a day.

I am nobody special.

I am not perfect.

I have as many foibles as the next person and possibly more.

As I expect my friends to forgive me my mistakes, foibles and irritating habits, I should forgive them theirs.

And if my friends fail to live up to my expectations of perfection, I should compare them to all the other people in the world and realise how much worse they could be.

Comments

Shit

[wordofblake.livejournal.com]

Damn Andy,
what happened to you?

Ok you're not a beautiful unique snowflake, but you're not too bad.

Re: Shit

[andrewducker]

I know I'm not bad. But the point is to recognise that I'm just a person, with good bits and bad bits, and emotions, just like everyone else.

Re: Shit

[wordofblake.livejournal.com]

ok, but what brought it on?

Re: Shit

[andrewducker]

Talking to Gina about Joe. Thinking about people and how much I judge them for their failings and how little I judge myself for mine. Of course, I do judge myself for my failings, and I constantly try to improve, but not as much as I judge other people.

So I thought I'd write something to remind myself.

amen, brutha

[ex-aphonia179.livejournal.com]

It's always hard to remember these things.

Most everybody (including me) wanders around, angry at everything, expecting the world to be like an infinitely patient waiter to whom they can scream "Send it back! I'll wring the cook's neck, personally!"

You're not as ugly or as beautiful as you think. Nobody is.

And, hang in there.

Yer pal,
A.