What's a "perfect match" anyways...

A friend of mine once said: "I'm sorry if you thought not all men are the same... because they are... sorry to burst your bubble."
And for a long time I had thought that not all men are the same, that not every human is the same, and I continue to believe it... but somehow, what he said... made me think...


Talking to a friend today, admiring the many things we have in common I said to myself "He seems so different!" and the thought came back to my mind "They're all the same"...really? and then I wondered..."Why am I even wondering about this?" The thought of checking if all humans are or not the same will take you nowhere... they will never be the same!

Don't take into consideration the fact that there are tendencies that us, as humans show, THAT has nothing to do with anything. We will all expect the unexpected and receive the typical most of the times, but then again; many created ideas of our childhood, our ideal, and everything we have around were created in fairy tales, story books and daydreams, literally, in the hands of the writer, so who decides what the unexpected is?; and somehow people still believe in them and expectations reach an unreal level in which nobody will ever be good enough.

Being down to earth does not mean you want to have a great person as your loved one, a working man or woman, competent, with goals, caring, in other words "the one and only"; being down to earth is giving the other person a chance to grow and show their real self and remembering that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Being down to earth is realizing that people are perfect the way they are, as long as they have the maturity to realize that a piece of art is always appreciated best when seen from different angles and that a beautiful poem does not stand out because of perfect words but because of real feeling from one heart to the other.

I guess society leads you to believe that your perfect match is out there, and that you don't know where you might find it... but you meet your perfect match in many places, many times, it's just that most of the times your "perfect match" needs time to become your "perfect" and needs someone just like you to spend the time it takes both of you to turn into the human beings you want to be...

Lesson learned:

I'll always be the same, unless I reach a point in which I say "this is not working right" and even though getting the "perfect match ideal" thing out of your head is not easy, it's just a matter of opening your eyes wide enough and noticing the beauty that sarcasm and chance bring you, and realizing that you meet your match on a daily basis... Who knows?... it's just a theory...