“You cannot have perfection and company. To be in love with a person is to be negotiating imperfection every day.”
Alain De Botton
A friend sent me that YouTube link the other day. I watched it and thought it was interesting. Lots of little nuggets to think about. (Here’s a link to the original NYT Opinion piece that prompted this video.)
This talk reinforces the idea of assuming good intentions. This is for real something I live every day. Not just because it’s an act of generosity to the person who’s acting and speaking in a certain way. Mostly I apply this rule because it allows me to feel a greater sense of peace in the world.
The speaker in this video associates this act of grace with love. True love means always looking for the good intentions. He’s speaking, I think, about romantic love, the relationships that we choose to be in.
I apply this rule broadly, really to everyone I meet. I kind of like the idea that this means that I lead with love in my every day life.
eleven bee 