Perfection in Motion

How do we walk?

Our lead leg leaves the ground first, swing­ing from the hip, our bal­ance shifts and we fall for­ward. We catch our­selves when our heel hits the ground, then our foot rolls onto its toes. The trail­ing leg leaves the ground, and we fall for­ward again.

We do it so casu­ally day in and day out, we never notice our­selves falling.

And yet, that’s what we do – lose and regain our bal­ance thou­sands of times a day.

The Per­fect Relationship

A friend told me about an online dis­cus­sion she read on ‘the per­fect rela­tion­ship’. It sounded like most peo­ple define per­fec­tion as a place where they can stop strug­gling – where every­thing stays pris­tine for now and ever.

It also sounded like a fantasy.

She asked me what I thought a per­fect rela­tion­ship was, if there ever could be such a creature.

Hon­estly?

I think it’s a lot like walk­ing. You fall, but you regain your bal­ance again. And when you can find bal­ance in imper­fec­tion together, walk­ing until the end of your jour­neys, that sounds just about per­fect to me.

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