When people say ‘I was born this way’...
‘Born This Way’ is definitely a pop music classic. The idea and concept are simply awesome and have been widely appreciated.
Here are some examples of the applications:
I was born with this skin colour. Great, please don’t try to change it.
I have naturally curly hair. Good, you should be like Frieda.
(High five for Peanuts fans!)
Then I found someone who is rude and said, I was born to be straightforward!
Wait, what?
I don’t know if you have experienced this. You met someone whom you want to be friends with, and you did. Then one time he or she did something wrong, or I should say, you think that they could have done better. So, as a friend, you tried to give your advice and tell them what they could improve, then they go like:
‘I’m not perfect. Sorry.’
‘Don’t you know that I always talk like this?’
‘Are you criticising me?’
‘Hello? It’s not the first day we’ve met!’
Some people just can’t accept any negative comments about them. They use excuses like ‘so what? Nobody is perfect!’ or ‘I WAS BORN THIS WAY!’ to convince themselves that they can continue doing things in their uniquely spectacular manner. Well, these people handicapped their self-improvement.
Though no one is responsible to make others feel great, it is important to keep open for negative comments. Some of them might make sense (I would say most actually, especially those from people who really know you), while some don’t. But if you keep on rejecting All of them, how are you going to improve?
Indeed, no one is perfect. Yet that doesn’t mean we need to be satisfied for what we’ve done. Like what Mark Manson said (did you read his life-changing book by the way?), we are always wrong, but from time to time we could keep on correcting ourselves. It is not seeking for perfectionism but being hungry. Which is what makes us humans.
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