Dream, Don't Plan for Perfection

January 9, 2015

Perfection: something perfect, the highest degree of excellence, flawless

Complete, unblemished, exact, and faultless

But what is this idea of perfection

Beyond an arbitrary perception and a mind's conception?

The essence of being human is that one cannot achieve perfection

But the very perfection of being human, is finding out your own imperfections

Us as humans need to realize there is no perfect life

But we can fill it with perfect moments and memories right?

We need to give up on being perfect, and start the work of becoming ourselves

You yourself can't be perfect and neither can anyone else

But the achievement of perfection would be major

Because us as humans have our imperfections naturally, due to our human nature

And even if perfection was somehow achievable

How would it be believable or conceivable?

Perfection is a word we far too often and far too easily misuse

And as we misuse it, it's meaning will reduce

It has a different meaning for everyone, and everyone will use it in different context

And perfection will always be an idea that is simply complex.

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