In his poem “Born Yesterday”, Phillip Larkin looks at a new born baby and wishes, not that she is beautiful or smart or talented, but that she is ordinary.
There is great value in our just being. There is something essential about remaining attentive to those around us, whatever the distractions, no matter who may have done what to whom. The completing thing lies in being grateful for where we are. In accepting our shortcomings. In being patient and loving. It is only in the impurity, that the true perfection is revealed.
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