Arlene Wright-Correll

I Was Floored When I Discovered I Was Flawed©



Posted: Wednesday, October 26, 2011

by Arlene Wright-Correll
http://www.learn-america.com

How can that be?  How can someone who was created so perfectly, so pure, so simply unique become flawed?

I came into this world knowing everything in the universe there was to know about everything and then my parents diligently spent the next few years of my life de-programming me, erasing all the knowledge of the universe I arrived with and now I sit here thinking how floored I am when I look back over the flaws I have been left with.

I am abash at how many there are and I wonder how I have survived them.  Perhaps I should put them into verse.  How do I flaw thee, let me count the ways.  No wait, I think someone did something like that.

Let’s be practical about the whole thing and try to tackle them one at a time.

  1. Flaw number 1.  I am a terrible optimist.  I continually think that for every problem in the universe there is a universal solution.
  2. Flaw number 2.  I keep seeing the potential in people even when they cannot see it in themselves and it becomes quite disconcerting and disappointing at times.
  3. Flaw number 3.  I find it hard to be patient with people who refuse to help themselves even when I know they can.
  4. Flaw number 4.  My ideas often are so avant-garde that it often takes 10 or 20 years for them to become the norm.
  5. Flaw number 5.  It took me over 50 years to learn it is just as lonely at the top only I eat better.  Once I even had a T-shirt made that said that just to remind me about it.
  6. Flaw number 6.  Though I try to like everyone, I find I cannot and often there are good reasons and often it is because we may be mirroring each other and that is very disconcerting.
  7. Flaw number 7.  I have given up praying.  My mantra each morning used to be, “God, please give me an idea today that works today, not one that is 20 years ahead of its time.” No one was listening.
  8. Flaw number 8.  I think nothing is impossible and often I realize that achieving the impossible is simply because I have run out of time.
  9. Flaw number 9.  I often fall out of love with myself and that is one of the worse things one can do because if one does not love one’s self how can anyone else?
  10. Flaw number 10. Thinking and believing I had no flaws until I started to think about them and then I was floored!

About the Author & Artist. Arlene Wright-Correll (1935- ___), popular American award winning Artist, published author, columnist, & is the resident art instructor for Avalon Stained Glass School, at the age of 68, decided to pick up her paint brushes again after 54 years and paint.  She is a cancer and stroke survivor who is able to strive forward each and everyday to welcome the beauty of this small planet.  She also is a China & Porcelain painter, Sandblasting & Etching, Stained Glass & fused glass Artisan. She is one of the six KY Artists who worked 6 months to create the dolls for Journey Jots in 2006 and a Smithsonian Institute art exhibit in 2008. Her published books can be found here . She is also a featured writer for GreenThumbArticles.com and teaches Art Vacation Holidays at Avalon Stained Glass School and Creativity Center.

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» left by Jean Horst
 182 days 11 hours ago.
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Enjoyed this, Arlene! Love your list of "flaws".
» left by Arlene Wright-Correll 182 days 8 hours ago.
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Thank you so much.
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