izzy88
Active Member
No. I don't believe our natures are imperfect and conflicted. When I suffered from chronic depression, I thought this. Now that I'm not, I'm learning to get back in touch with my true nature. Imperfection is in the eye of the beholder. It's also depressing and counterproductive to living a blessed life.
As someone who has suffered from chronic depression for virtually my entire life, I empathize with you. We may not agree on how we see the world, but I'm very glad to hear you've found an outlook on life that makes you feel blessed. If that's the case, you certainly must be doing something right.
I don't know where I'd be if I thought I was fallen and couldn't get up.
If god gives blessings and protects, wouldn't it make sense to lean on him as so Not to fall rather than see yourself fallen in order for him to pick you up?
Isn't the point not to fall in the first place?
If we fall, we can never learn - never grow. A life without struggle is a life without meaning, a life without progress. If a parent were to prevent their child from ever having to make a mistake, what kind of person would that child turn out to be? If they never took the training wheels off of their child's bike, sure the child would never fall, but that means it would never learn to ride. Parents allow their children to fall precisely because they love them so much, and they're always right there beside the child to help pick them back up.
That's how I see it, anyway.