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Amanda Rogers http://thenakedelephant.net/
“A cat loving girl from Great Britain
Met a nice man and was smitten.
Before she’d engage him
She set out to change him…
Now she lives all alone with her kitten.”
“I just met the man of my dreams! This guy is PERFECT. PERFECT, I tell you! There is not one thing that I don’t absolutely ADORE about him. He’s… soulful. Yes! He’s… my soulmate. Yes! He’s my… soulful soulmate!
But… there is one tiny, itsy bitsy, teeny weeny problem. ..He’s a cannibal. Some sort of ancestral tradition or something. What difference does it make? As soon as I change him into a macrobiotic vegetarian, everything will be just perfect.
Although…he does have kind of funky elbows. The skin kind of sags in a grotesque kind of way. Maybe he can get some kind of elbowectomy. I know a good plastic surgeon. I’ll call tomorrow…”
Does any of this sound familiar?
Men, women, parents, lovers, children, bosses…we all do it and we do it to each other. We believe we have the power (and the right, for that matter) to transform others into who we want them to be. And there is no doubt that this creates disappointment on one hand and anger on the other. And who wants to come home to an angry cannibal? Not me.
So…to all us human kind who live by the motto “I love you. You’re perfect. Now change.” Perhaps it is best we take a full on look at the package. Love, respect and tolerate all of it, without any delusions that we can fix it, before we embrace it.
“I love you. You’re far from perfect. I accept you anyway.”
