Is it the idea of perfection, or the unexistence OF it that get's a person too caught up in trying to BE it?

Question

Is it the idea of perfection, or the unexistence OF it that get's a person too caught up in trying to BE it?

Answer 1

perfection exists artificially and (arguably) conceptually. everyone aspires to perfection as means of validation or simply to achieve perfection and be the subject of envy.  

but we all admire and appreciate perfection, so i believe that even if everyone else was blind, you would still be trying to achieve physical perfection, just for the personal gratification.

Answer 2

we get lost in our quest for the future, instead of understanding the now.

Ideas of perfection, ideologies etc are a manifestation of an inner dissatisfaction with the now.  Closer examination of the now can bring one to understand that dissatisfaction and why there are so many ideologies.

Answer 3

The perfect model is a goal, something we can measure ourselves by, check on, to see how far we've come.

The journey to the goal is perhaps more immediately important, but both the journey and the goal are part of living.

If we're cooking an omelet, the goal is the perfect omelet, but if we're too caught up in that portion of spacetime, we're not living in the warming of the skillet, melting of the butter and cheese, etc.

"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet,

"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock,

"The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga Kharitidi,

"A Philosophy of Universality," O. M. Aivanhov,

"The Great Divorce," C. S. Lewis,

"Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves,

"Autobiography of a Yogi," Yogananda,

"The Overachievers," Alexandra Robbins,

"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck,

"Hope's Boy," Andrew Bridge, and

"Freakonomics," S. Levitt, all show how being and becoming, moving toward a goal, are positive and even many times necessary.

Answer 4

we can never achieve perfection because in the first place, we are never PERFECT. no one is and no one will be such. i think the unexistence of perfection feeds us all. we always try TO BE PERFECT based on our own perspectives and views.

Answer 5

No one is perfect, but maybe someday, after judgment.  

Answer 6

Yes because we're always striving to be something no one else can be in my opinion

Answer 7

I think perfectionism comes from being overly critisized at some point in one's life.  I lived a good portion of my life like this.  One of my main goals was not to get yelled at.  And one of the attitudes I took from all this yelling was that there was a perfect way to do things, a set of rules that exists somewhere that's just obvious to some people, and if you follow this set of rules nothing will ever go wrong for you and you won't experience any real pain in your life.  This attitude was a dominating theme that permeated almost everything I did.

The idea of perfection was so attractive to me because I thought that if I could be perfect then no one could ever yell at me or criticize me again, that I could get approval from my parents who'm I felt never really approved of me.  If I could just be good enough, if I could just try hard enough, I could have that childhood that I always wanted.

Answer 8

Probably both. But the way I see it, we're perfect in our way. It's our imperfections, our flaws and most importantly our choices that make us, us. That is perfection. It seems contradictory. but think of it this way. If we didn't have suffering we wouldn't be able to recognize happiness. In this way, being imperfect complements your goodness; your decisions.  

Answer 9

i think its more of the idea of perfection and the idea of becoming so amazing that you are better than all the rest but the unexistence of perfection i think also gets people going

Answer 10

Only God is perfect and we aren't God. Strive for excellence. Do all that you do as unto the Lord. Think of it that way, doing everything that you are doing as if you had to give it to God personally.

That is the standard since we can't be HIM.