Flawed

’You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful’  - Amy Bloom

 

All of us want to be the best or the second best. Similarly, when we build our team, we seek for perfection. But an obsession with perfection is detrimental. It makes us unable to accept our flaws, other people’s flaws and unable to accept untoward events that happen in life. 

 

In ‘Don’t sweat the Small Stuff’; Richard Carlson suggests ‘making peace with imperfection’. A vicious cycle begins when instead of conceding the error; we engulf into guilt and berate ourselves. We refuse ownership of the mistake and enter a state of denial, often blaming someone else. 

 

The fact is, we will err, and often we will err repeatedly. We must be patient and calmly note the reasons for the mistake, and simply try to avoid it in the future. Making peace with flaws extends to others as well. It is unreasonable to expect perfection from our colleagues, particularly given our own lack of perfection. 

 

Life is imperfect. Things go wrong. We must learn to accept such things. The world is imperfect, we are imperfect, but that need not stop us from being happy. Happiness comes when we come to terms with our flaws and those of others. 

 

Accept that you will find yourself flawed

Others around too are of the same board!

 

~ Pravin K Sabnis

 

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LIGHT WITHIN

Today we celebrate the Festival of Lights where the lights signify victory of good over the evil. Diwali or Deepavali has many legends associated with it. In North India, it is associated with Ramayana where people of Ayodhya welcomed Rama (after a 14-year exile) by lighting rows (avali) of lamps (deepa). In Goa, it is commemorates the defeat of Narakasura at the hands of Krishna & Satyabhama.

Founder of Jainism, Mahaveer is said to have attained Nirvana on this very day. Additionally as the day, chief disciple of Mahaveer, Gautam Swami attained complete knowledge, makes Diwali an important Jain festival. Sikhs celebrate Diwali as the day of the release from prison of their sixth Guru, Hargobind along with 52 other princes with him, from detention in the Gwalior Fort in 1619.

For the Hindus, the festival marks the triumph of good over evil and the homecoming of goodwill and faith. For the Jains it is a celebration of complete knowledge. For the Sikhs, it is a struggle for freedom. And it is a confluence of all these reasons that will add meaning and purpose to our lives.

To banish the darkness, it is not enough to light lamps. The battle for freedom from darkness needs the lighting of the lamp within. We have to connect with values of equality, justice and peace for all. We need to connect to knowledge and a better understanding with what’s happening around us.

To banish the darkness shade
Light the lamp within instead!

 

~ Pravin K Sabnis

 

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Super Moon

The full moon today marks the first supermoon of 2025, as well as the first of three supermoons in the next three months. This full moon will be the closest of the year, making it a special supermoon: large, bright and golden. 

A supermoon occurs when the moon is full and its orbit is closest to Earth. Because of this proximity, the full moon looks brighter and larger than a regular full moon, which is why it's called a supermoon

 

Perigee-syzygy is a term that observers of astronomy use when a full moon coincides with a close advance by the Moon towards the Earth. Perigee is the point at which the Moon is closest in its orbit to the Earth, and syzygy is a full moon. 

 

Modern superstition is full of doomsday predictions due to the ‘supermoon’ – a term coined by an astrologer, Richard Nolle in 1979. It is pertinent to note that earlier ‘supermoons’ was distorted by doomsayers to buttress their business of fear.

 

However inquisitive minds strive to know whatever possible impact due to perigee-syzygy. Obviously, the biggest impact of this event is that people have a choice to be better at analytical observation and critical thinking. All it requires is a thirst for facts and a fascination to unravel the unknown.

 

Look up to see the super moon and sift fact from fiction

View perigee-syzygy as a time for rationale validation!

 

~ Pravin K Sabnis

 

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