"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
- Unknown-
I know perfection doesn't exist, but I still strive to be perfect or live up to someone's expectations every day. While no person is indeed perfect, society expects us to live like we are. We are not supposed to break the law or break hearts or have bad credit.
When we apply for college, we are supposed to excel on the SAT's and write a flawless essay to go with our application so we can get accepted by a Top 25 University. When we graduate, we are supposed to have a 4.0. When we apply for a loan, we are supposed to have flawless credit and have a history of on-time payments. When we find someone we want to spend the rest of our lives with, we are supposed to love them unconditionally. When we apply for a job, employers look at academic credentials more than life experiences.
We are supposed to live an extraordinary, flawless, impeccable, perfect life where everything comes easy and we don't make mistakes.
Colleges and Universities are making entrance admissions even harder to pass. Lenders are making it even more difficult to qualify for any kind of loan. Employers are tightening their minimum job requirements, making it even difficult for entry level or under-educated people to apply.
Everything is getting harder to accept, to pass, or to qualify for, it seems like. Even people who search for partners online through Match.com that immediately write off a person by the color of their skin, or the fact that they're overweight or they just don't have those attractive physical characteristics.
Why is it so hard to become accepted in today's society, by any standard? What happened to those days where it was easy to get a loan or get admitted into college or graduate school or find your soul mate on the internet?
Times have changed. The economy is still struggling and people are still getting laid off left and right. People are having a tougher time qualifying for anything or being accepted for something. I get it. But a mistake that was made several years ago - which turned into a lesson learned - that now prevents you from being accepted today, is more than disheartening.
In a world where we're "all created equal," so many details set us apart.
