“Nothing is perfect” means: Of course life is going to suck sometimes. Of course people are sometimes going to be mad at you. Of course you’re going to have your heart broken, and get sick, and lose someone or something close to you in this lifetime. Of course. Because that’s what it means to be alive, to have a beating heart in this body. Acknowledging that nothing is perfect means being realistic about the nature of being human. This work isn’t about not having challenging emotions; it’s about changing our relationship to those emotions, not adding an extra layer of suffering on top of them.
