Where Angels Fear
Jul 30, 2017 · 1 min read

Serenity

Wth time, relationships behave as do our bodies: some become healthy through exercise … others strain and break … yet others wither … some even die.

We expect more of our friends and loved ones than we do of others.

It’s easy to remember that, but all too easy to forget why … and let our disappointment with their imperfections blind us to how perfect they actually are for us.

It’s a simple thing to forget and, in doing so, to forget why: that we hold them in such high regard that, when they prove human, we are disappointed. We forget to see them as the wonder they are to us … friends for life … and treat them as an appendage instead — a disappointingly misbehaved one at that … defective … deficient. They are no longer people to us but extensions of our own, disappointed, selves

Let’s not do that to each other.

Let’s not forget that, contrary to popular refrain, we are in fact, each of us, “a unique and beautiful snowflake.”

Remember … you can’t be disappointed by people if you impose no expectations on them in the first place.

Let’s remember we’re all just human.

And simply give up on each other instead.

Where Angels Fear

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