Flaws.

We need to stop using the word “flaw.”

What the heck are flaws anyway?

The actual definition of flaw is “a feature that MARS the PERFECTION of something, a DEFECT, a FAULT.”  (Emphasis mine)

Perfection.  Another word we need to stop using.

Perfection doesn’t exist, it never will.  So, if it doesn’t exist how could something be flawed?

When you believe you are flawed or even think that you’re flawed, you send yourself the message that you are defective, you have fault and blame because you have marred the perfection of yourself.  Therefore, you must be flawed.

“Flaw.” That word makes you believe that there is something wrong with you that needs to be fixed, that you have to salvage this thing that is so deformed, that this thing you have is unacceptable.  Somehow, someway, you are going to improve this defect within yourself because no one wants to be flawed.

STOP BELEIVING THE LIE that there is something inherently wrong with you that needs to be fixed.

You are not flawed.  You are you, there is nothing flawed about you.

Flawed.

No thank you.

I am me. I am whole.

I don’t need to be fixed.

I don’t need perfection in life

All I need is to be my authentic self.

Flawed isn’t something you are.

Flaws aren’t something you have.

Other words, according to the thesaurus, for flaw:  bug, defect, failing, weakness, glitch.

NONE of those words are associated with you, and neither is flaw.

If I believe I am flawed, that I have to accept my imperfections, that I am “Perfectly flawed” or I am “accepting my flaws” as quotes like to say, it allows others to permeate my mind in thinking that they have solutions to my problems.  That I am something that needs to be fixed.  Because don’t we always try to fix the flaws?

I don’t want to be perfect or flawless,  but I do want to work on being the best possible me, committed to growth, determined to find a deeper understanding of me, to appreciate all my uniqueness and shine that light I have within me.

A flawed person could never do that.

A flawed person never WOULD do that.

I will always make mistakes, I’ll never get it right the first time around, I’ll say the wrong thing, I’ll do the wrong thing – all that is steps toward growth, to seeing myself as who I am.

And who is that person? Someone who is always trying her best. Open to learning. Being a positive light to those around her.  Spreading love and joy.

Stop looking at yourself as flawed.

Stop seeing imperfections.

You are complete. You are whole.

You are never, ever flawed.