It's amazing how often we simply accept ourselves as who we are, how complacent we are about our inadequacies. Perhaps inadequacies is a bit too strong, but we all clearly have significant room for improvement. It just doesn't seem as if many people out there really put in that much effort to change themselves. Is this perhaps a symptom of a society which all too often accepts sub-par so as not to hurt feelings or jeopardize the status quo or is this evidence that I haven't done an adequate job curbing my critical nature?

How often do we make promises we don't keep? How often do we make mistakes we know better than to make? How often do we forget those who are important to us? These aren't questions I can answer, just questions I feel should be posed. Who'd have thought that when your parents asked "what happened to the other 1%?" when you came home with a near perfect test score that there would be that much truth in it? The funny thing is that academia isn't the most important realm for continued development, though not a bad place to start. It is, however, the easiest to identify mistakes and indicate room for improvement.

Now, what's the point in all this? Maybe I've spotted weaknesses in others... maybe I've spotted more weaknesses than I care to admit in myself, or maybe I'm just sick of being let down. By myself, friends, coworkers... people in general. Is this a personal crusade for the betterment of mankind? If you'd like to call it that, go for it, but it's more accurate to say that this is the overly-critical ramblings of a guy who just can't keep his mouth shut. But hey, who ever said I was perfect?