Forgive Yourself for Being You (Speech)

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We are all born handicapped and raise around our explorations of this scintillating cosmos the enclosures of identity and distinction, aka the self and personality.

Life is, therefore, a process of ever greater constriction, as we ossify into ourselves, from becoming to being, inexorably fossilized, trapped in the ambers of our lives, peering out of the ashen hourglasses of our dwindling sands, not comprehending, befuddled, bemused, or terrified.

We are ephemeral creatures made of dreams and stories and narratives that allow us to soar beyond the confines of our egos.

And yet, we rarely forgive ourselves for being who we are, for having cravenly eschewed and forsaken the alternatives, for having matured into error-prone cliches and subdued banalities.

We then often embark on self-punitive and gory crusades against our most miserable existence. We mete out harsh justice against ourselves: judge, jury, and executioner in one.

Yet, all this is wrong, so wrong.

If only you could behold the child inside you, that vanishing promise, bright eyed and filled with wonder.

If only you could open yourself to the experience of being human, this fleeting, heart-rending apparition.

If only you could make reality itself your dream.

If only you had reached out to the drowning and the mentally emaciated and the emotionally overwhelmed and the fearful in the night.

The terror and pity of it all. This sublime slime that we all are. This sinking feeling of sempiternal twilight and the ethereal promise of a breaking dawn.

If only you could love yourself in all your frailties and faults and forlorn hopes and frustrated endeavors and the losses that make up a biography.

If only you could forgive yourself for being you.

You are imperfect. Limited. Transient.

Your knowledge and information are always partial and biased.

Despite all these impediments, you are really trying: hard, persistently,

You are doing the best you can.

The decisions and choices you make are the only ones you could have made.

You are here. Proof of your perseverance and resilience and inner strength.

There is a nucleus in you that knows to tell the difference between your essence which aspires upwards and your actions which drag you down.

This spark is who you veritably are.

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