What Does It Mean To Be Perfect

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Perfection, we all strive to be it. The perfect partner, the perfect daughter, the perfect son, the perfect person who says and does everything perfectly and the perfect student with straight As.
The obsessive need to become perfect puts so much pressure on us. Suicidal thoughts, anxiety and depression control many people now a day. My mother whom works at Olive Dale hospital, comes home and tells me that people are being put in hospital daily due to eating disorders, suicide attempts and stress related conditions all because we put way too much pressure on ourselves.
Our need to be perfect bounds us to the joy of the moment because we have the need to control and perfect everything, and for whom are we doing it for? Are we doing it for you, …show more content…

What might be perfect to you might not be perfect to the person sitting next to you. Societies “perfect” is an illusion, an idea or a reality but administered by parents, culture and religion. Guess what, we are not a machine, there is always a flaw. We don’t have buttons and programs to make us perfect. We are not meant to be one idea that is “perfect”. How boring would it be if we were all perfect and identical?
The true essence of perfection is not the package we come in physically, perfection is the level of your sole untouched by your past, peers, and social media or by the hurtful words of your enemies. Spirt guys, it is you spirit that is perfect. Hand made by God, your spirit is what goes to heaven or …show more content…

You were born free; when you were kids you jumped on the beds and ran around naked at the Christmas dinner, like me, because you didn’t care. You didn’t care how you looked, how people saw you and there was no sense of self-consciousness. And then as soon as we become self-conscious we become petrified of failure. But as kids we didn’t care, we were in bliss because we were in touch with our inner selves. As children we are born free but as soon as we enter the real world we start to deal with society and we disconnect from that perfection. We are being taught and bombarded with the idea that who you are is not perfect. Then people say, ‘I will love you if…”. So if you do x,y,z you will be accepted in the world. This trains us as kids to become self-conscious because we think we are not perfect and to become perfect you have to do something or say something or why don’t you just change yourself completely and only then will you be “perfect”. Then you eventually get into a mindset that if you can control yourself and other people’s responses by being perfect then you will be loved. And it’s just a never ending game of the fear that no one will love you for who you really

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