Imperfection

You cannot unsee what you have already seen. After you've lived a while the imperfection of the world perturbs but you also understand it is not fixable. You need to reframe your vision if you are to retain your optimism. 

The world has always been a mess because there are too many variables at play. If you were to remove some of them people would claim they had lost a free will which Robert Sapolsky says does not even exist. We are enigmas at are our core even to ourselves. 

Examining the topic of gender variance over the years made me realize that it is a microcosm of the inherent chaos and fluidity we live with in every other facet of life. We try to put order and rules in areas that defy our attempts to rest on our laurels.