“You can’t fix what ain’t broke.”

People are people.

Simple words that in their understanding can either build, or break, a bridge.

Yet accepted open-mindedly, these simple words can paint a picture that needs not so many words.

In essence, the acceptance of these coinages is what delineates the forethought that self-help, self-improvement, and self-awareness are not necessarily the necessity of our well-being.

Yet through the moral grace and sanctity of humanity, we are each able to see the greater good that is housed within us, and recognize that what are  normally deemed as problems and issues are but everyday steps and hurdles that must be surpassed in order to get us to that next stage of personal growth and development.

What separates us, as humans, as people, and as society at the best and worst of times, is our ability and capability of independent thought and decision making. These are processes based on experience and learning, and not necessarily in that order, and neither necessarily at “like” ratios.

There are multiple teachings of the inherent battles of what we see as good versus evil, and the values that make up the decisions that guide us in our chosen paths. We make decisions along these lines, but primarily based on what we have established as core values.

This is what constitutes, people being people.

From birth, we are blank slates. Open to thought, expression, guidance and moulding.

Decisions based upon decisions, always with the purport that good outweighs the bad, and the decision made is the “best” decision.

A parent is always portrayed as wanting what’s “best” for their child, but “best” can be interpreted in so many different ways. Upbringing, education, and protection, are often found to have the word “best” as a pre-cursor. This just proves that, as exemplified in every day life, the best is not always better.

Faults, errors, missteps. They don’t make us weaker, they make us human. Perfection is an ideal glamorized through media, and marketing. Realization that we don’t have to “Photoshop” life, is at the forefront of accepting that true beauty is within, and translates to the real world in the real methods of your actions and your efforts.

The ideal of one’s child being perfect, of being “golden”, is the want of every parent that brings a child into the world.

I have never prescribed to that.

My ideology is simpler, and is very much my own. Not omnipotent in any way, but just a way of life that has been learnt through example, through experience, and for want of children that are, very basically, “happy” for want of a simply termed word.

Happy doesn't necessarily have to be constantly smiling and beamingly overjoyed. One can just exude contentment in who they are and what they do, there does not have to be method to their efforts, but just the want to do so.

Good and evil, incurring thought of effort versus reward, divide these decisions each and every day of our lives.

The great and wise “Yoda” said it best: “Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.”

Smart actions and smart reactions, made by positive decisions, are the crux to any solutions to the hurdles that life gives us.

Of those, there will always be.

Feigning that there won’t be is just wishful thinking.

A seed doesn't stay a seed. It grows, it matures, and time and experience make that seed into the tree that it becomes. It waves in the wind, it sways to the weather, yet it ever grows bigger and stronger.

A tree does what it is born to do.

Unconsciously.

We do what we do in our growth.

By nature.

Nurture the Nature.