Bee’s Musings

“ Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ”

- Dr. Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998),

From time to time a song just reaches out to me and says “This one’s about you.” I’m sure that happens to everyone, right?

Well, the one for today was Imperfection by Saving Jane. The lyrics are below.

Imperfection

While I was reading my post about emotional baggage and luggage, it got me to thinking about how we carry our pasts with us. We all talk about how our hearts have been broken and left scarred.

I have a new proposition to make. Instead of counting those as scars, lets look at our hearts as passports that allow us to travel through this life, and experience all it has to offer. Your heart allows you to feel love, joy, passion, sadness, and pain. Without any one of these things, life wouldn’t be complete.

Sure, we don’t always want to experience those things, but they are the things we need to.

And for every life experience, we get another stamp in our passport. Rather than seeing these as flaws, we should treasure them for the marks of passage that they truly are. Display them proudly - every story has highlights of goodness, and fleeting moments of sadness. So does every trip.

I’ve been thinking about relationships a lot lately. Maybe its because most of the strangers I encounter seem to feel the need to comment on my relationship status. I’ve gotten a lot of “Your boyfriend must have so much fun with you!” or “He’s a lucky guy” comments. Even the guy in the Sonic drive-thru one day commented on it.

So, of course, lots of thinking about relationships leads to lots of talking about relationships. With every relationship comes baggage. And I don’t mean the cute kind that you proudly take through the airport while you’re going to Bora Bora on your dream vacation. I’m talking about the kind that weighs you down and makes you feel like if you were really going to Bora Bora that they’d have to build another island just for all the “stuff” you’re going to take with you.
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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. ”

- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

My friend Heather posted this a while back on her MySpace blog, and when I re-read it today, it really resonated with me. And I wanted to save it in some small way, so I posted it here. (It has a lot of God references in it, and if you are a believer, or not, its still powerful.)

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