Umm…the “V” word?? Bet most of you are saying “Don’t know that one.” Sure you do. It’s a word that often makes us contract our shoulders, jaws, and blink our eyes in discomfort. So what the heck is it? Vulnerable. THAT word. Vulnerable. Uh, oh, you mean showing stuff like shame, fear, and uncertainty? Yep, these oh-so human qualities we often wish to keep hidden behind locked doors. And, damn, that door just wants to open sometimes, since the effort of keeping it locked can be absolutely exhausting.
My mom tried to be perfect and was Scorpionically (?) affected when she fell short. I learned early on, "It's not worth trying to be perfect, because there rarely is such a thing." Something I held tight embarrassed in my early 20s, by the time I was 27 I discovered 8 more of my neighbors were also holding the same thing tight to their chest and what a healing if I could have talked about it then, in that leadership position. Hindsight so quickly after the fact, drove me forward with clarity in the receding decades. Thank you for this.
My mom tried to be perfect and was Scorpionically (?) affected when she fell short. I learned early on, "It's not worth trying to be perfect, because there rarely is such a thing." Something I held tight embarrassed in my early 20s, by the time I was 27 I discovered 8 more of my neighbors were also holding the same thing tight to their chest and what a healing if I could have talked about it then, in that leadership position. Hindsight so quickly after the fact, drove me forward with clarity in the receding decades. Thank you for this.