This morning during my meditation I was being reminded of a to-do that I didn't get done yet: to laminate some things.
Lamination kept playing and bouncing around in my head, and suddenly some images of people I knew were being put in a laminator. Their decisions, actions, words, beliefs, all laminated.
Sure, they looked great. Nice and shiny, clean, happy.
...but something looked off (besides them being encased in lamination).
Life isn't about looking nice, because not all aspects of life are nice. Sometimes it's great to look shiny, but we might appear fake, transparent, not authentic.
To be our authentic self we must take a step back, reflect, get dirty, go through the rough drafts, polish our experiences to really learn the most teachable lessons.
We can choose to simply laminate our ideas, appear safe and shiny, but doesn't the interaction of ideas, beliefs, thoughts, etc seem a bit fun?
Your choice to keep drafting/editing/re-vamping your works or simply laminate.