Martin MacInnes

So many times I had identified errors-in my work and in my relationships- stemming from the the original mistake of too many assomptions, of predicting rather than perceiving the world and seeing something that wasn't really there. I noticed this more as I got older. Age was, among so many other things, the realisation that you couldn't correct this, that the pursuit wasn't meaningful, there was no perfect clean reality on the other side. You're flawed, and the world you see correponds to this flaws. Weaknesses define you, drive new and original strategies to cover them, and they make you who you are. You don't exist without them. Correcting the errors-seeing perfectly and objectively-is neither desirable nor possible.
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