Bittersweetness

“…nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”

- Wikipedia article on Wabi-sabi

Jessica

17. Life is bittersweet, and bittersweetness is greatly to be preferred to pure sweetness.
In the classic iconography of Heaven, everyone is 33 years old, everyone looks the same, and everything is oddly dead, like a plastic flower on a grave. In real life, we love imperfections, irregularities, beauty spots, and signs of frailty or age. The mortal actual is far more lovable than the ideal.”

- Don Cupitt, The Religion of Ordinary Life*

* This is quite fascinating to read in full and contains some ideas that I find very freeing. Thanks to James for sending this my way!