Insecurity

Life is a game and we should play by its rules. It is not an easy game and hard to win or excel at, especially when the standards are set so high. You see all these beautiful and prospering people winning and succeeding in life and realise just how much you’re stuck in that category of 'ordinary' or 'loser'. It’s easier to just give up sometimes; to just stop trying to be a 'winner'.

Times like these are when our insecurity creeps in, our self-doubts rooted deep in our day-to-day dealings. It’s natural for us to give in to these insecurities because sometimes, you just can’t help but feel bad about yourself. Sometimes you just let your demons get the best of you, and drain all your potential with these negative thoughts, thinking that you’ll never be good enough as the other person when all that talent is hidden right underneath that thin veil of insecurity.

Comparing yourself to others is natural; it’s a way for us to analyse ourselves. You go through a glamour magazine and then you stare at yourself in the mirror; at how fat you are, or maybe how bony you are, or maybe how frizzy your hair is, or anything else concerning any part of your body. The closer you look, the more flaws you’ll see, and all these minor details that God put on you are His way of showing that you’re worth it.

Each and every one of us has a different set of flaws, a different combination to show that we’re all unique in our own way.

There is no such thing as perfection — everything comes with its flaws and that’s what makes it all so real. Life's beauty lies in its imperfections. Our Earth isn’t a perfect sphere, it is a 'geoid' - flattened at the north and south poles, and the water healthy for us isn’t purely H2O, but contains minerals.

In the same vein, all of us have flaws, but that’s what makes us awesome — 'flawsome' to be exact. After all, a perfect world isn’t real and a real world isn’t perfect.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 12^th, 2016.