You Need To Accept All Parts of You (Including the Messy Parts)
How I learned to accept the pieces I kept hidden.
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“What do you mean, you don’t have it?” a new client we’ll call Karen was giving my boss the what for. “I left it here two weeks ago.”
Both my boss and I were confused. She’s the type of client you can’t easily forget, and neither of us remembered her coming in. Yet, Karen insisted we had her paperwork, and even worst, implied we lost it.
We pride ourselves on our organizational skills and for prompt turnaround times for our clients. Files never go missing.
Karen refused to believe she was wrong, so my boss calmed her by saying we would make a thorough search of our office.
Before she left, I heard my boss telling her, “You don’t understand. Scott is one of the most anal people I know. He doesn’t lose things.”
Karen huffed out the door, and then we were alone again.
“It’s a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it.”
- Martha Nussbaum
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