Cookie Cutter

Cookie cutter perfection doesn't happen. Life isn't meant to be that way. Life is about the mistakes, the screwups, and the lessons you learn along the way. Its the people who help you through it. Its the ever changing relationship between yourself and the rest of the world. Just as you think you have everything figured out, you realize its only the beginning, and there is plenty more insanity just waiting for you. Cookie cutter simply does not happen. And wanting it to will only lead you directly to disappointment and frustration, which isnt cookie cutter anyways. Your own personal mistakes and life decisions teach you everything. Parents and friends may want to shelter you from the consequences of bad decisions, but in the end, you have to experience the consequences yourself, or you never actually understand the effects. You have to fall back down. But you also have to know who is going to pick you back up when you do. Screw ups happen, but the rewind and do-over button doesn't exist. I've looked too long and hard for it. I know it isn't out there. But to rewind and do-over without knowledge gained wouldn't change the outcome in any sort of positive direction. It's the screwups that make people unique. Things may appear majesitical in their illusion of perfection, but the perfectly designed paper angel, carefully constructed by an adult can never match the beauty of the coloring of an angel by a kid to her parents. Perfection loses the meaning. Its beautiful, sure. But its empty. Quirks of people make them who they are. The individual stories, the learning experiences, the mistakes and how you choose to handle them are what truly matters. Nothing else.