The Flaws of Perfection

Everybody wants to be perfect, but what does it mean to be perfect? Who measures our perfection and what criteria are required for one to be perfect? Is it good to be perfect? Why should one be perfect?

All these questions bug me and I know subconsciously they bug you too. Now the world is driven by competition; countries are trying to acquire nuclear heads, mobile networks are trying to achieve the highest number of customers, social networks are trying to get the highest number of users, and even the devil is trying to get more followers than God who created the earth. I wouldn’t say it’s not advisable to strive for perfection, but perfection itself is a snare in that anyone who attains it’s stead gets a distorted psyche of how things are supposed to be. He/she feels above all, a god in human flesh. Seeking for an equal to compete with, they find none and since life is hinged on the fringes of competition, they go berserk.

Looking through the ages at successful people, they all have their flaws; Thomas Edison was called “addled” by his school teacher, Richard Branson has dyslexia and Abraham Lincoln suffered from clinical depression. These shortcomings played a part in pushing them to work hard for greatness, without them they probably would have been satisfied with who they were at the growing stages of their lives. They would have settled for meagre achievements and would never have been the people we know them to be today.

Talking about the flaws of perfection, perfection itself is an already finished state; it needs no improvements, no bettering, nothing. Nothing can be added to it, only subtracted. Also, since the strive for perfection is inevitable, anyone perfect becomes a target for others because they try to attain his/her state of perfection and if they find they can’t, they try to cut the person down to a size in which they can measure up to him/her. Why would anyone want to be in those shoes? Everybody aiming for your spot, trying to shoot you down and get you to stay down forever, why would you want to be there?

The savour of the strive for perfection is this; no one can be perfect. As humans, we resolve to overlook that fact and strive still; this is what drives us, not perfection itself but the pursuit of it.

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