To Err is Human

We strive. Strive for perfection. Strive for more. Strive for love. Why is it so? What do we gain? Do these things we strive for improve our lives? In the short term the obvious answer is yes. Love, perfection, and the pursuit of material possesions make us happy and improve our lives. Really? Love hurts, we have all been hurt by love, I think it may be inevitable to escape the pain that love causes. Stuff? Stuff is stressful. The more stuff you have the more you have to worry about. Theft, damage, out of date. You need things like insurance. You need to worry about repairs and warranties. Then there is the cost of just keeping things running. Electricity, Gas, Maintainence. And now Perfection. We can't be perfect people but yet we try, always trying to better and improve onesself. If we don't live up to the standards we set or others set then we deal with depression and angst and worry. Are we as good or smart as the next person? Are we as attractive or active? Talented? All of these things bring worry into our lives. Uneeded and Unwanted stress, However, these are the things that we seek everyday. Maybe instead of seeking to be perfect we need to seek the Perfect. Maybe instead of more things for ourselves we should worry about the ones who have nothing. Maybe instead of striving for love we should strive to love. Maybe we need to forget who and what we want and just be who and what we are. Strip away technology, strip away buildings, strip away attitudes. Lets get to the core. We can't. We don't like who we are without our things, our love, our perfection. We also can't face who we are with them... but it is an easier illusion to face. To numb ourselves into complacency. To forget what we really are here for. To change our responsibility. But it is human to err. We prove that everyday. We hate but yet we would have it no other way. To be human is now an excuse.

Maybe I 'm wrong, I mean, I am only human...