Vulnerability is what makes us unique, especially people. By recognizing our weaknesses, we accept our status as human beings.
However, we often try to hide everything we feel weak and do not recognize, showing others an unnautnical form of ourselves.
- When we hide all that we are.
- We fall into self-deception.
- In the denial of our essence.
- Thus losing the connection with others.
One way or another, in our culture, there is a pattern of behavior that leads us to hide our weaknesses, where we have to look like something that others expect and we believe we should always strive to be the best.
When we play our daily roles, both professionally and personally, do we intend to be the best at all costs?
This belief is the day-to-day life of many people who live under the fantasy that their lives are to be the best in what they consider important.
Reality puts everyone in its place, showing our limits and our difficulties, all together, in constantly changing circumstances that we cannot control.
Thus, life strikes us, stops us and makes us resurrect. The key and goal is not to be the best in one or the other, because in this way we also lose competitiveness and compared to others.
This brings us to the extreme of personal demand, without any consideration for ourselves and with our own learning process.
We can even lose sight of our central priorities in life and move on to disconnect from ourselves, where we don’t know what we want and where we are going.
Accepting one’s vulnerability to oneself and others requires courage, because it means accepting ourselves as we are: with our wounds, our outstanding problems, and our mistakes.
Thus begins a whole process that leads us to achieve true internal development, through which we can love ourselves unconditionally and thus obtain a state of greater well-being and inner peace.
This process can be initiated by setting goals that advance us and recognize our status as human beings.
In the development towards the acceptance of our vulnerability, we find ourselves and thus access our authenticity, facilitating the connection with others.
When we manage to accept our difficulties, without fear of being rejected, without fear of exposure because we seem weak, we take off the masks that we usually wear, with which we have superficial relationships.
This is where we approach reality in a more natural way, being able to maintain more honest and authentic relationships.
“Accepting our vulnerability rather than trying to hide it is the best way to adapt to reality. -David Viscott-
By accepting our vulnerability, we can be more human, thus admitting our imperfections and, therefore, those of others.
We take away arrogance and superiority, without thinking that we are above others, after all it is very pretentious to want to be the best and obsess over this idea, losing our lives in this relentless quest.
We overcome our fears and limitations with acceptance, managing to show ourselves as we are, so that we are always the best version of ourselves.