A short reflective monologue arguing that expecting perfection in people (spouses, politicians, ministers, etc.) is unrealistic and leads to disappointment. The speaker emphasizes acceptance of human fallibility, noting that everyone begins in innocence (illustrated by the speaker's daughter) and that recognizing shared beginnings can soften judgments of others.
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You know, we want this perfect spouse or this perfect politician or this perfect minister or the perfect whatever. And it's like, I don't know that human, as if that exists. Interesting, right? And yet we put people, we expect human beings innocently not to be human. And I think, like, there's, there's, there's something there. And so think of when you ask me how it's recognizing if somebody's treating me, you know, you know, whatever, they're having a poor day or they're saying, whatever, if you have acceptance, acceptance that we're all human, acceptance that we all began. I look at our daughter and I see her innocence. And you think of the cruelest individual that you could possibly imagine. They started out as an infant in that innocence and that awe and that wonder. And so that makes me wonder in a different way. Speaking of wonder.