Sometimes

Sometimes I believe that there must be a fundamental flaw in myself to explain why my life the way it has become or how depressed I am most of the time. Then there are other times when I think that the way I am is flawed because of the way I was raised. In both of those statements I am the one who is flawed, whether or not that flaw is the result of nature or nurture is the only fundamental difference between them.
These two ways of thinking, according to many self help books and gurus, are both untrue and for the same very simple reason.
Most new age thinkers subscribe to the basic belief that we are all perfect spiritual beings who are having a human experience that should be savored for their idiosyncrasies rather than be reviled for the way each is beautifully different.
As young children we are as yet unaware of what the outside would call flaws but are truly just the way are handful of stardust was up together so we could learn what we agreed to in this life.
I'm not a subscriber to the belief that mass murderers shouldn't be incarcerated, there is something about life this person agreed to learn but that does not mean that crimes shouldn't be punished.
Maybe in a past life they were murdered an decided to learn from the other side, I don't know.
We're getting sidetracked, the whole point of this is that I myself am not the flaw.
I as I was first born am not flawed. I was born with an innate knowing of what is right for me and it is only when the physical world interferes with this that things go wrong.
When we forget the spiritual side to our natures things go wrong on a very deep level.