"Nobody's Perfect" - And That is Why We're Great
Sun Mar 21 11:50:38 2010
The phrase "nobody's perfect" is known to virtually everyone around the world. It's often used as an "excuse", a defect. However, here's a different way of thinking on the matter!
I'm sure you've heard it before or even said it before: "... oh well, no one's perfect!" The phrase is often said as a form of an "excuse" when negative qualities about a person are revealed. However, I feel that the fact that no one is perfect is actually a benefit.
What is "perfection"? If we are to grab our favorite dictionary, we'll see "a quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of excellence"
as one of definitions. If someone or something is perfect, it means there's no room for improvement - it's the best it can become. Perfection means there's no further progress possible. Do we really want that?
For thousands of years many people thought that water itself was perfect. It releived thurst and was present in abundance. In modern days, someone thought otherwise. Some thought tap water was not pure enough, and others thought that drinking water is too plain in taste. The result of these thoughts is bottled/filtered water as well as all those bottled waters that are semi-flavored with various fruits.
Floppy disks were imperfect due to small amout of data they stored, and they progressed into CDs, which further progressed into DVDs and so on. Modern computers no longer even have a floppy disk drive - floppy disks are dead. We can't allow the same to happen with people; can't make them obsolete. This means that we do want to seek perfection after all.
From all this follows that we should seek perfection but make sure we never reach it. What kind of a goal is that? A perfect one...?
If the "...highest degree of excellence"
is something that is constantly changing as we progress into the future, wouldn't "perfection" as a never changing state be impossible?
Perfection must be something that is constantly adopting to its surroundings. A perfect person is not the one who doesn't have any flaws, but the one who seeks to eradicate all of them and to excel at everything that they do. Perfection in humans cannot be defined by the lack of flaws, for it is the flaws that force us to seek perfection... and that what makes us truly perfect.
It's true that we all have flaws. Even if you could take a certain person and remove all their flaws judging from a fixed perspective; they would still have one flaw remaining, and that flaw is the lack of flaws. There would be no room left for improvement. What would be next? The person would die off just like floppy disks did.
"Nobody's perfect" - is not a defect of humanity. It's our strength. Rejoice in the not being perfect!
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