Pedestals & Co.

I heard a sentence that stuck with me today: "When someone puts you on a pedestal, the only way to go is down."

How many of us put others on a pedestal? People we care about, who can never live up to our ideal no matter how hard they try because as we all know, nobody's that perfect.

It happens all the time and is probably one of the major reasons for conflict in any relationship. Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, parents and their children, siblings, husband and wife, best friends - we all have expectations, hoping the other person will live up to the way we want them to be. When they don't it's a mammoth disappointment all around. It takes time to elaborate what happened and get over the hurt, until we realize that we're all just people. People who make mistakes.

We all deserve a second chance if we really want to make things work.

And this is what I want to write about in my next book. Thanks for tagging me Magnolia.