Embrace imperfection and be your

Alice Walker, civil rights activist, poet and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, reminds us that so called flaws can be unlikely source of the true beauty. To see through walker's eyes is to see the seeds of beauty sprouting in even the most dire circumstances. Like Walker's description of trees and nature, we are all at times flawed, twisted, and fallible. It can be tempting to succumb to this fatalist view of ourselves. We are imperfect, and therefore, we'll be wrong or broken at times. But Walker reminds us that these imperfections are a virtue, not a fault. They are not errors to correct, but the things that make us unique and exquisite in our own way. Humanity's true beauty lies not in perfection, but in mistakes, scars, and idiosyncrasies that make us ourselves. Don't worry about your perceived flaws, rejoice them, because a forest's true beauty doesn't come from the uniformity of its trees. It comes from their individuality.