100% Error-Free

So, what now then? I don’t know where to go from here, which way to turn, where to go. There have been so many wrong decisions, so many wrong turns, but I am here now, and no place else.

Here, and nowhere else.

I cannot go back, retrace my steps trough time, unpick the tapestry and start again. What has happened, has happened. There is no escaping it. It will all remain there, no matter how much anyone tries to deny it.

Too many people, it seems, go through their lives haunted and taunted by things from their past, scared that what they try to hide – sometimes even from themselves – will leak out into the cold light of the present. 

We have all made mistakes. It is not possible to be alive and not make mistakes. We are not 100% error-free, not ever will be. We invent gods and other supernatural acolytes in order to fool ourselves that perfection is possible, maybe even achievable. Then after the inevitable fall from that grace (note the religiousness of that phrase) we end up trying to deny it ever happened. 

Everywhere, especially in politics and other such endeavours that rely on creating a – usually – false public image there is this… instinct, almost… to cover up, bury, distort and deny, as though the illusion of perfection must be maintained no matter what the cost.

Trouble is though, the cost of the denial, the distortion, the hiding, the cover-up, all of it, ends up costing far more than the original failure would have done, but still we all carry on as though the illusion of perfection matters more to us than the fallible reality we actually live in.