Why is imperfection beautiful

When we get rid of the unnecessary items in our home we free ourselves of feelings on anxiety and start to appreciate the essentials. Essentials may be different for each person. But the idea is to pair down. Think about what you really love to see in your home, or use. See the beauty in what you already have.

Be environmentally conscious The idea of wabi-sabi supports our environmental awareness. If we are selective in what we buy and keep those purchases for years to come, possibly to pass down to our children, we embrace Wabi Sabi.

We see the value in a well-worn chair or a dining table that has flaws in it from many years of gathering around it. When we limit our purchases to quality and natural materials we are showing appreciation for our beautiful earth. I have personally found that embracing the idea of Wabi Sabi actually feels very freeing. It allows for growth and for seeing beauty wherever you may live. It can inspire us to simplify by seeing that some of the pieces of furniture we have just might hold as much if not more beauty than that brand new modern coffee table.

It really is all in how we view our authentic selves. The beauty in our imperfections, the beauty in our homes and in others. So let's remember to never focus on perfection. The love that has run its course. A broken heart is devastating.

It does something to all of us that makes simple, everyday life things feel too hard for a while. Whatever the reason, and whatever your role, it hurts.

Loss changes people. Irreplaceable, soul-clenching, heartbreaking loss. We might learn the strength of the human spirit. We might grow. We might learn about resilience, kindness, compassion. But there is some loss that, for the rest of forever, we would trade everything and anything for things to go back to the way they were. Every relationship has a make it or break it point.

Something that will tip us towards being angry, sad and forgiving, or being angry, sad and done. The difference between a good relationship or friendship and a bad one is how we feel on balance, and whether it feels good more than it feels bad.

People will make mistakes. One of the greatest ways to sabotage people is to refuse to let go of the mistake. At some point, for the sake of the relationship we need to decide whether to let go of the relationship or to let go of the hurt that has come from the mistake. The two will have trouble existing together.

We judge. We criticise. We shame. We hurt the people we love. We get it wrong. It is so important to invest in our relationships when we can. Ultimately, inevitably, there will be times we need to draw on the bank of goodwill, good feelings, good heart and good history. We all have it in us to be jerks — the breakage that comes with that often comes down to a question of intensity and regularity and our own willingness to respond to the damage that has spilled from our not-so-adorable moments.

The tendency to compare ourselves to others is in all of us, but some of us will do it more. Sometimes it can be easier to see truths when we see them being worn by someone else. There will always be someone with more of something we want. This can motivate us, inspire us or suffocate us. Whether comparison grows us or grinds us is ultimately our decision to make. Likewise symmetry, and perfect ratios, seem to be crucial for facial attractiveness — yet, at the extremes, such findings start to diverge from our real experience of beauty: one study last year concluded that Shania Twain had the perfectly attractive face, with Angelina Jolie trailing behind.

Even imperfection can be pursued perfectionistically, to be sure: there's nothing remotely wabi-sabi about spending thousands on a slate countertop that's irregular in exactly the right way. If you really found beauty in flawedness, perhaps you'd hang on to the Formica one.

This column will change your life: The beauty in imperfection. Take something irregular, rough-hewn, off-kilter, incomplete… and it's all the more desirable for its flaws.

It keeps changing. American humourist Mark Twain said that the very notion of perfection is continuously getting perfected all the time, so much so that it needs an element of imperfection as a catalyst to grow further! In fact, anything or any person with a slight error or imperfection is more admired by people because we all can relate to the imperfections more easily than an imaginary idea of perfection.

Our attempt to achieve perfection has robbed us of the simple joys of life. He scribbled them when thoughts struck him.