"You are confined only by the walls you built yourself." I based my whole presentation of learning on this. At one point of my IA life, I realized one simple thing, you are the only person that blocks yourself. As my POL description stated: I am my problem, but also my solution. Through the POL I was able to realize a number of different things. I saw how I was growing as a learner continuously and I hadn't even realized it. It was cool because my POL had a different approach than every one else's. I stated how I changed as a persona and how I went on my own metanoia.
I practiced this presentation very hard. When I presented it to a wise person, with a lot of knowledge she told me. "Noa, do you think perfection exists?" I smiled and nodded and said "Yes." She frowned and looked at me as if she was expecting a totally different answer. I looked at her firmly in the eyes (which if you don't know me, doesn't happen much) and pointed at the white wall beside us. "Look," I pointed, "the wall is perfectly painted white." An innocent smile burst through her face and she faked a nervous laugh. I pointed at the sofa where she was sitting and said: "Look, this sofa is perfectly made for you to sit in, and that table is perfectly made for me to put my laptop on." The woman giggled and told me: "Yes, but do you think that perfection exists in a person."
Surprisingly the first thing I did at that moment was look up for the definition of perfect online. This is what it said:
I practiced this presentation very hard. When I presented it to a wise person, with a lot of knowledge she told me. "Noa, do you think perfection exists?" I smiled and nodded and said "Yes." She frowned and looked at me as if she was expecting a totally different answer. I looked at her firmly in the eyes (which if you don't know me, doesn't happen much) and pointed at the white wall beside us. "Look," I pointed, "the wall is perfectly painted white." An innocent smile burst through her face and she faked a nervous laugh. I pointed at the sofa where she was sitting and said: "Look, this sofa is perfectly made for you to sit in, and that table is perfectly made for me to put my laptop on." The woman giggled and told me: "Yes, but do you think that perfection exists in a person."
Surprisingly the first thing I did at that moment was look up for the definition of perfect online. This is what it said:
I read it in my mind for a few times. I nervously giggled at the woman and changed the subject. Now, at home, I lay in bed thinking to myself what perfection actually is. I mean I had read the official definition on the dictionary but for some reason it didn't seem to connect to what I was thinking in my head. Flawless. Flawless. Flawless. Flawless. When did create a flawless facade become more important than loving the person who lives inside your skin? I thought about it for hours and looked at pictures of my favorite Victoria's Secret models: Cara Delevingne and Karlie Kloss. They were both flawless. But did it all come because of make-up. I thought a bit longer and then the next time I saw this woman I was sitting in her office and told her: "I thought about what you said, and no, perfection does not exist in people. You know, when I go to parties I want to straighten my hair and my friends with straight hair want curls. And then I wake up and look at myself and want to change a couple things, and the people I see as beautiful want to change those things to." She smiled and told me that this was exactly what she wanted to here. But this was not enough for me. I went home and started researching on Cara Delevingne. All she does is embrace her weirdness and all her imperfections all her FLAWS and I think that learning from my POL, we all should too.