Real people aren’t perfect, and
perfect people aren’t real. And yet we all want to be
perfect. We all want to have money, and friends, and love. But
honestly, along the way there’s going to be times when you
have no money, fights and drama with your friends and heartbreak
and loss. All of that is part of life. And life goes on. But why
do we want to be perfect? What is so enticing about it? What
makes us do the crazy things we do? Is it truly the need to be
absolutely perfect? Even if we know we aren’t going to be?
Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, but PERFECT is always hanging
over our heads. Always. How many times have you wanted to do
something perfectly? We always strive towards perfection, and
when we don’t reach it, we’re upset or ashamed, or we
want to try it again and again, until we do get it perfect.
There’s nothing wrong with trying of course. But setting
the standard too high, or a goal to difficult, something that we
call perfect, can make us feel that we always have to be.
Especially if we do reach that goal or standard. And maybe
perfection isn’t a good thing. If we try too much to be
perfect, we’re missing out on everything else. Everything
else life has to give us, and to show us. Maybe that’s the
way things are supposed to happen though. Maybe, if we do strive
to be perfect, maybe, just maybe we’ll realize the mistakes
we’ve made. And maybe we’ll try to right those
wrongs. How many people are we going to push away, how many times
are we going to say things that we don’t mean before we
realize that perfection is not what we truly want to achieve? All
any of us really want is a good life. Some good friends, and
maybe a little love. Minus the heartbreak and loss, the fights
and drama, the sickness, and accusations. But that’s not
what life is about. Okay, yeah, there’s going to be all of
this stuff, the good stuff, the bad stuff, and the useless stuff,
but family and friends are always going to be there. No one is
perfect. Not everyone has money, or friends, or love. And people
who believe themselves to be perfect, have to look a lot deeper
to find out the brutally honest truth: that they aren’t. No
one is perfect. Life is not about being perfect. It is about
learning from mistakes, and learning to trust, even if you get
hurt in the process. Life is about being yourself, not someone
that the T.V. or magazines are saying we have to be. Life is not
about being perfect, or finding yourself. It is about creating
yourself, learning from past mistakes, and not taking anything
for granted. And perfection is not part of it.
