You are perfect

I'm perfect

Have you noticed that the world 'imperfect' splits up to make "I am perfect"?

As the years go on and society advances far beyond our general knowledge, we as humans, have forgotten one simple inevitable fact of life: we are not perfect, with the goal to have the perfect life, the perfect transcript, the perfect recommendation letter from the perfect teacher who will love us for being perfect and nothing short of that, we have seemed to forget that we were created to be imperfect, to make mistakes. We have wrongly shamed ourselves into thinking that we must always have the most honorable careers. Major in the respectful majors, get into the highest ranked colleges, and achieve that perfect 4.0 average (6.0 on our scale).

And if we don't which most likely we won't, we view ourselves as failure. We label ourselves stupid when we don't get a 100 on an 'easy' test. We grumble and moan when they didn't study as much. Words such as "stupid" and "moron" , are thrown around a lot more than "smart" ,"brilliant", or "talented", Yes, you should strive. Yes, you should strive. Yes, you should try as hard as you can to achieve your goals. But you shouldn't be so pressured to the point when you lose all happiness and joy in life, when you stop seeing the food and starting lamenting on the bed. Who established that a score of 100 means you are competent and a 90 means you are not? Who created the law that if you don't get into Harvard, you are not as worthy as the person who did?

Society did. We did. Our parents did. We deny it sometimes, but it is always there, the rules looming over us. Slowly but surely, society controls everything we do. Money has value and worth only because society says it does. We follow rules only because society has implanted into our heads that this is right and that is wrong. People who wake up doing the night before. And why? Because society has already generalized waking up in the afternoon as an act of laziness.

As people we are mean to be different choices and lead different lives. One of the best thing about life is learning things about life is learning. And learning only comes from foolishness and experiences. What does the perfect person have to learn? Why live if you already know everything? Those who say that life is not measured by the number of breaths in one's life, but by the number of moments that takes one breath away are right. And the only way to have those breathless moments is to take risks, be foolish, and learn wisely. Why is it so wrong to make mistakes? No one is perfect; everyone makes mistakes. So why is it viewed so negatively to be imperfect?

If you think about it, all of the happy moments in our life come from those so-called mistakes. If you hadn't screwed up on that one question, you wouldn't screwed up on that one question, you wouldn't have learned such a valuable mistake. If you hadn't tripped on that sidewalk, your future husband wouldn't have stopped to help you up. If you hadn't been so depressed from your current job, you would have never stopped and tried to create a happier life. If you had never sinner like Hester did in the Scarlet letter, you would have never had that one shining Pearl in your life. read more...

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