Hilarious imperfections

Well, today I managed to accomplish none of the things I had planned, and that is completely ok. One of the reasons that I love kintsugi and wabisabi ideas is the acceptance and embrace of imperfection. I, and a lot of people that I know, and a lot of people that I don’t know exactly, but witness in one way or another, are at least a little obsessed with perfection even though we understand that perfection is a non-existent ideal. But my understanding of that is predominantly at an intellectual level and, since I am an academic, I have spent most of my life assuming that understanding something intellectually was maybe not understanding it completely, but almost always understanding it enough. That imperfect understanding of understanding is one of the most hilarious aspects of myself at this point in my life. I don’t waste much time wondering what could have been different or better if I had realized this sooner, but I frequently have thoughts pop up into my mind and realize how flawed and incomplete my primarily intellectual understanding was. So I also occasionally laugh quite hard at myself at times that don’t make sense to casual strangers if I happen to be in public. Just one of life’s delights.