“It’s the adoration that kills you.”

H,

We always speak of the pitfalls of humans worshipping other human beings. There is an inherent fall waiting for both sides of the equation. It’s the adoration that kills you. We are not made to take this sort of things with grace. We begin to speak back to that side of us that tells us we are worthless. We swing from the lie that we are at the bottom of the barrel to the other lie, that we are the top of the heap.

Fallibility is underrated. It can teach us to be free of ego enough to see the truth about ourselves and others. There is a way that a great humbling makes us more human and less false. People who live in the illusion of perfection, as a job title or general posture toward life, actually do the most horrible things. There is no anchor for that soul. There is no one to answer to, even within themselves. It is God without the character, and the Messiah without the love.

This is not to say that anyone is worthless or should feel that way, for so-called “balance”. Can we just agree on inherent value and beauty? Can we not put obstacles in the way of people being individuals and becoming who they ought to be without telling them they have to be this or nothing else? We do not need to worship each other. We should not. We do not have to denigrate each other. We should not. We should learn to love each other. This is the best face and heart of being human.