This Is Something We All Need To Understand

Absolutely no one is even close to being perfect.

Everybody cries, everybody makes mistakes and everybody fails. No one is exempt from that. EVER!

I really want you to fully understand this and not just assume you get it:

There’s so much you do not know about that person that you are just assuming they do.

On TV you only see a highlight reel of their life!

In every TV show 1 Season represents a year of the life of those characters.

But they, just as much as you, go through stress, moments of boredom, hopelessness, laughter, joy and also make their own mistakes! You have to remember that there are 24 hours in everybody’s day!

That’s 24 episodes with 20–90 minutes making up about 8–36 hours of their year that you see!

And every person you interact with, be they friends or family, also only tells you what was memorable.

When a person flaunts their success in single moments ask yourself what they are not telling you about.

Look at Robin Williams for example, may he rest in Peace.

He was a man filled with laughter, joy and a seemingly unrelenting fountain of childish energy!

People looked up to his happiness and his joy and he was very well respected.

In the same way we all lead lives that are all over the place!

Yet he still took his own life because he was depressed.

For all the signals he showed there was so much that no one knew about that eventually took the better of him.

This perfect image that we have of the people around us is not real.

People walking in the streets in expensive suits and acting arrogant and entitled may come home to an empty house.

Nobody is perfect!

People reaching successful statuses in every single field may do so because of a never-ending lack they feel inside.

And even the friends you surround yourself smile when they see you and cry, procrastinate and avoid their life due to the stress it brings them.

Even the Dalai Lama feels pain, loss and anger, which he openly admits to himself!

Do not allow yourself to feel worse for any of it!

People get lost all the time.

Everybody cries, has bad days and makes incredible mistakes.

Nobody, no matter how perfect they may seem is truly perfect. Remember that and stop trying so hard to reach a standard no one can achieve.

You, just like everybody else, are a total mess.

Some things go right, others go awful, but at the end of the day you are not worse than anybody else.

Originally published at http://quora.com.