Some of us wait for perfection. We want to be X before we can do Y.
We want to be completely awake and healed before sharing our insights with others. We want to have our life in perfect order before having children. We want to heal completely after an long lasting illness before going back to work.
I see this for myself, and those examples are from my own life right now.
We can tell ourselves it’s noble to wait for perfection. But it can also be a very long wait. And it’s very often an excuse. Something we can hide behind.
As someone said, perfection is the enemy of the good.
A wish for perfection is a way for us to try to compensate for feeling not enough – not good enough, not lovable enough, or whatever else it may be. And it’s a way to not fully engage in life. It’s a way to let our fears – the unexamined and unloved ones – stop us.
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Initial notes…..
- waiting for perfection
- perfect health, emotional healing, release/clear beliefs/identifications etc. before can….. (work, children, share insights etc.)
- trying to be perfect bc don’t feel good enough (lovable etc.)