{"id":571,"date":"2011-07-14T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T16:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abitcoquettish.wordpress.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2015-08-29T13:25:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T17:25:47","slug":"imperfection-is-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/imperfection-is-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Imperfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/imperfectionisbeauty3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"573\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/imperfection-is-beauty\/imperfectionisbeauty\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/imperfectionisbeauty3.jpg?fit=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,375\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imperfectionisbeauty\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/imperfectionisbeauty3.jpg?fit=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-573 size-full\" title=\"imperfectionisbeauty\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/imperfectionisbeauty3.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/imperfectionisbeauty3.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/imperfectionisbeauty3.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m not perfect. I drink my hot cocoa out of a Tinkerbell mug (my favorite, actually)\u2014not one of a sophisticated Starbucks variety\u2014and leave less than perfectly symmetrical lipstick stains. I prefer my [eye] makeup to be messy, smudged, and slightly haphazard because imperfection seems to exude <em>je ne sais quoi<\/em>. Only, it&#8217;s completely unintentional: liner and mascara simply refuse to stay in their proper places. I wear glasses, need concealer, and eat food whenever I&#8217;m craving. I never remember dance combinations until class ends, and can never seem to keep my wallet even decently organized. I avoid counting\u2014and using\u2014change, choosing instead to hand bills to clerks to save time and avoid the awkward &#8220;<em>Err, sorry, I can&#8217;t find that penny, I know I have it though! I saw it a second ago&#8230;<\/em>&#8221; Perhaps I&#8217;m the reason why the Federal Reserve wants to oust the existence of coins. And once that happens, I shall be wholly responsible for their extinction. Fabulous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m impatient, headstrong, and moody. My emotions and passions dictate what I will put my all into, for better or for worse. I&#8217;m the best procrastinator. I have a caffeine addiction, and am too lazy to wear push-up bras. I&#8217;m an all-or-nothing kind of girl. Either or. No maybes, ifs, ands, or buts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m terrible with responding to calls or texts unless my phone is firmly glued to my hand, in which case, on the rare occasion that <em>does<\/em> happen, I seem to have no friends. I spend more time at the library than at the beach during the summer, and am insecure about stripping down into a bikini for the world of beach-goers to see (despite my recent little spree on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriassecret.com\">Victoria&#8217;s Secret<\/a>; wishful thinking, I call it). I can dance for hours and walk for miles through rain\/snow\/sleet\/graveled roads in heels, yet somehow cannot run a mile within a decent time, and always manage to be terribly awkward and clumsy in flat shoes. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My girlfriends don&#8217;t exactly understand why or how I could possibly think romance to be highly overrated. I don&#8217;t believe in true love or &#8220;the one&#8221; and find <em>The Notebook<\/em> one of the most ridiculous films I&#8217;ve wasted my time watching. They say I&#8217;m cynical\u2014but I&#8217;m a realistic idealist who keeps the dreaming to myself. I have curves and prefer dressing the flaunt them. The coveted yoga belly is far from reality, and I hate my thighs. I&#8217;m restless, easily bored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And that&#8217;s just the beginning. <strong>The truth is, I know what my shortcomings are, and I have absolutely no qualms addressing it to a group of strangers. But it&#8217;s not to say that you shouldn&#8217;t change yourself for the better.<\/strong> Case in point: I procrastinate. And I&#8217;m <em>en route<\/em> with rehabilitation and changing that. My caffeine addiction, however, can remain intact\u2014I don&#8217;t trust people who take their coffee decaf.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I intended this long-winded ramble to be an article on<strong> acknowledging, accepting, embracing, and flaunting our flaws. Because it is the so-called &#8220;<em>imperfections<\/em>&#8221; that make us not only human\u2014real, so to speak\u2014but individuals in this world<\/strong> of six billion something and counting (to reach 7,000,000,000 in 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_population\">according to Wikipedia<\/a>. Fun fact of the day.). Think of these characteristics as you would a hand-made Birkin. It&#8217;s the &#8220;no two bags are alike&#8221; that makes the bag all the more covetable, <em>non<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Imperfection is beauty.<\/strong> What are yours?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">. \u00a0 . \u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">xx<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>{image <a href=\"http:\/\/30.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_llkuyrXoBz1qc0iz3o1_500.jpg\">via<\/a>}<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not perfect. I drink my hot cocoa out of a Tinkerbell mug (my favorite, actually)\u2014not one of a sophisticated Starbucks variety\u2014and leave less than perfectly symmetrical lipstick stains. I prefer my [eye] makeup to be messy, smudged, and slightly haphazard because imperfection seems to exude je ne sais quoi. Only, it&#8217;s completely unintentional: liner and mascara simply refuse to stay in their proper places. I wear glasses, need concealer, and eat food whenever I&#8217;m craving. I never remember dance combinations until class ends, and can never seem to keep my wallet even decently organized. I avoid counting\u2014and using\u2014change, choosing instead to hand bills to clerks to save time and avoid the awkward &#8220;Err, sorry, I can&#8217;t find that penny, I know I have it though! I saw it a second ago&#8230;&#8221; Perhaps I&#8217;m the reason why the Federal Reserve wants to oust the existence of coins. And once that happens, I shall be wholly responsible for their extinction. Fabulous. I&#8217;m impatient, headstrong, and moody. My emotions and passions dictate what I will put my all into, for better or for worse. I&#8217;m the best procrastinator. I have a caffeine addiction, and am too lazy to wear push-up bras. 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