Being Right Never Felt So Good

As a Virgo, I am going to stereotype myself and say that I fit into that class of people that really likes perfection. I am a stickler for getting the job done before deadline and under budget. And yet, I find myself wondering about the imperfections as of late: those times when the conversation does not go smoothly, the plans that fall through, or when my emotions get the better of me. I like to stay in control, and I always like to give myself a good mental beating when I lose my cool. And then I come back to the idea of imperfection and I wonder if it is really not about getting it "right" at all but to embrace me, my experiences, for exactly as they unfold before my eyes. Simple, yes. Easy? Nah. But that is exactly what started to happen- the proverbial light bulb in my head told me that my lesson was to find grace in losing, laughter when I am getting it all wrong, smiling when the balls I so nimbly juggle begin falling at my feet. And then when that thought sunk in, I felt liberated in a way that theoretical lessons will never do it for me- I started to want to fail. I looked for the opportunity to pat myself on the back when the cards were not in my favor, to feel deep gratitude when what once seemed like an obstacle I had to push down was a gate I simply unlocked and strolled through. And then as synchronicity always plays a part, I read something that just jumped off the page. We are not here, in this life, so that we never experience emotional pain or hurt or even anguish. We are here to overcome it, to even embrace it, and to become more spiritually aware because of it. When we come across someone who is giving us a good fight, we can feel gratitude toward this person as our teacher. And if we do not recognize the teacher, we will be sent an even stronger teacher with a more powerful version of the same lesson. For me, my recurring lesson is to continually re-create my vision of perfection. The conversation or the experience or the relationship will not always go smoothly, but if I can accept that which occurs without the doubt and residual feelings of failure, if I can see it each time as a small win on this journey we call life, than it will always, undoubtedly, without hesitation, be...perfect.