for the perfect image,
or body shape,
or work of art.
However,
many of us are now recognising the magnificence of imperfection,
the beauty in the old,
the used and reused,
the cracked and forgotten,
the battered and alienated,
the ageing and the dying.
This includes our stories ...
our narrative,
which forms and reforms,
the beautiful,
the magnificent,
the beloved,
human being we are today.