Self-Improvement, at the Risk of Self-Acceptance

Self-Improvement, at the Risk of Self-Acceptance - NYTimes.com:

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SOMETIMES I get tired of always striving to be better — of knowing there are ways, endless ways, I can improve myself or members of my immediate family.

When I feel really down, I think of how far we have to go. We could, for example, start our own vegetable garden, use that homegrown produce to make delicious and healthy meals and compost the leftovers in the composter we don’t yet have. Then we could turn off — or even throw out — the television and read to each other from the classics while sitting in our hand-carved chairs.