A bit of insight from this and last weeks' ... annoyances... failures... shortcomings... etc.

Keeping your faults to yourself really doesn't do any good. You feel bad because of a mistake you made that you can't change. Keeping it to yourself allows it to ferment inside you wihle you puzzle others with actions that make sense only in full context. By allowing at least those you trust to know what you've done wrong, you open yourself up to help. Like gargline with alt water, you become hardened to that which ails you, which in turn allows you to find a cure.

You can't expect to understand a single aspect of life by observing it in isolation. The only way to learn everything about anything is to study it in relation to everything else.