Path to sainthood

You see it all the time. You witness how people get so uptight about any petty remark, getting into fits just because someone commented something negative about them. It may just be a tiny remark, it doesn't matter.

These people have a need to show off to the world that they are perfect and spotless. And they will will lie, cheat and kill just to maintain that image. Everything must be swept under the carpet to preserve their "honour".

Here, the are two very important points that they fail to realise in the course of their unending endeavour to projecting themselves as "saints".

First, rule number one kicks in - one will bounce off to the direct opposite direction when pushed against one extreme. See, whenever someone goes off on tandem to one extreme, there will be a "breaking=point" where they will go off and do the extreme opposite. That's why you have priests committing the very sins they condemn, politicians doing the very things they abhor, and the list goes on...

And the second point - best summed up in one phrase : "Those who fail to laugh at themselves".

See, the ability to laugh at ourselves and not take ourselves too seriously is far more important than one might think. It is a sign of maturity. It is a sign that tells us that life is too short to live it in such uptight manner.

Think that everyone's so interested in your "sainthood"? Think again.

No one cares that you're always presented spotless for they know that there is no one on earth who's perfect(unless of course, you're God!). People are hungry for reality. People are hungry to know that their leaders are humans and that they, too, make mistakes.