Thoughts
Good morning.
First I want to say that John's Green's skill with the English language is unfair :)
His vlogbrothers today is heavy.
In reply to him, as I work through my own mental health dents, I wanted to say that my core belief about humanity is that people are good, but also that people working with good intentions hurt other people, and that that is unacceptable. Without addressing the validity of this from a factual or logical standpoint, it sucks as a core belief because it leads to avoiding people, even when I or the other people have good intentions. And it's even harder to work through because it's not obviously false.
-- 2 min prayer break --
So it's obviously false that avoiding other people is a moral necessity. I think "acceptable" is not a good way of looking at it. This is where my perfectionism clashes with my pragmatism.
Except I'm not pursuing perfection any more, I'm pursuing excellence.
I have a childlike zeal for eradicating things that are bad or broken; but I shouldn't be trying to do that, I should be trying to fix things that are bad or broken and fix imperfections. I refuse to \*accept\* imperfection. And I don't want to change that about myself. But pursuing excellence isn't accepting imperfection or rejecting people.
So I guess that's the resolution. Always better relationships. Always learning more about other people in order to do them less harm. Never perfect, until heaven.
(Doing your homework for you, cross links:
https://youtu.be/0Co-8ZcN7CY
https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=f433c9c1-cff5-4d13-90a2-300d4489bca2
https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=d6a00c78-e1e9-4b50-aaaa-992227276463
https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=75ef9f48-ee9b-4ed6-8a27-6cd954b55bc0)