Perfection is Death

Perfectionism is met everywhere, from Apple CEO’s, you know who I’m talking about, to even kids in middle school fighting for the higher grades, trying to be perfect so their parents can reward them for memorizing useless shit that is most certainly out of date and they will never use it.

Look, perfectionism can be destructive a lot of the times because you might get burned out, but also it can be helpful sometimes because out of the wish of becoming perfect, which is not the best wish, you can push yourself and get motivated to accomplish stuff that you desire. It can lead to some excellent accomplishments and rewards, but it can also blow you up.

Perfectionism is both good and bad, depending on what viewpoint you are watching it from but the issue is that perfection itself is cancer. There are two big reasons why you shouldn’t pursue perfection.

Perfection Means Death

Constant movement, going up and down the ladder of life means life itself. Work in progress is life since you are in constant movement you are not the same as you were yesterday. If you keep on improving yourself, learning and experimenting new things, moving, not being stagnant, then you are living. Movement is life.

No movement, being stagnant, the same as yesterday means death. And I don’t say that you have to make tremendous changes in your life every day so it’s not the same, the simple fact that you are alive means constant change. So if you are not alive, there are no more changes happening, and I don’t refer to the physical body since that is not you because you are something more significant.

What I mean by perfection is death is that if you become perfect, there is no way to change anymore. You are perfect, at the top, there is no room for improvement since there’s nothing better than this thus you can’t change. If you can’t change, you stay stagnant which means that you are dead. Maybe the only way to achieve perfection is through death, but we can’t share those experiences with the living ones.

Perfection is unreachable

As I said above, maybe the only way to achieve perfection is through death since perfection itself is death so attaining it while you’re still alive is impossible. Because it’s impossible, setting a goal to become perfect will only get you frustrated because if after endless tries you don’t achieve your goal there’s no way you don’t get mad.

If you want a better goal, try to become the best version of yourself, push your boundaries and keep on going despite any feelings that you should stop. To give you an example, today I tried to work for a future project on Steem with @thethirdeye and @buzlealex, and it was more or less a failure. We got to learn a few things from our mistakes, but we did not achieve what we wanted today.

After I got home, I was tired, and all I wanted to do was chill out. I had to finish some stuff for @OCD, so my time got even lesser. I usually post at around 7-8pm, but today I only finished work at that time. I still had no article, I passed my deadline, and I was tired. But I decided to push myself out of that state and keep on going despite the wish of stopping so I wrote this article.

I went a bit off the subject here but what I’m trying to say is that perfection is an illusion and you should focus on doing as much as you can. Become better and do even more.
Perfection is boring, and no one should wish for anything like it.

P.S: Referring to THIS article from yesterday, the situation is solved, and I got my money back. As a matter of fact, I got even more with around $50, maybe because ETH raised in value since yesterday, not sure. It’s all good now, but it was a nice scare.

The pictures are from Pixabay: 1, 2, 3.