Perfection: An Unwatched Loop

Are you perfect? We need perfect results this time! You have to be perfect to win! What skills do I need to perfect fit for this new role? These are some common questions that everyone asks at some point. But very few of us answered this “perfectly”. To answer this question correctly, one needs to know what perfection exactly means, whether perfection exists or is just a false assumption, what makes people perfect if yes, and so on. So let’s solve this puzzle with some common and ordinary views.


What Perfection Means….
In the Cambridge Dictionary, perfection means the state of being complete and correct in each way. To get acceptance and approval from the outside world, people strive for complete and correct in every way. In the era of the smart generation, students get 100 percent scores in language subjects, but is it ever possible to receive 100 percent correction in every task for the person to attain in this fast-changing world? Let’s delve into the same.


Does Real Perfection Exist?
The answer to this question lies within a person's inside view, rather than based on some outside judgment. No person can be perfect from the views of another hundred people present outside. Perfection is the outcome of real efforts perceived by a person's own mind and heart, like self-perception. Perfection differs for people based on their efforts, resources, environment, and expectations. Thus, perfection exists only when viewed from a person’s inside view. If we strive to find perfection from other people based on their different expectations, then it would not be real perfection. It can hide the true and pure perfection of a person.

Expectation, Satisfaction, and Perfection
Every task has a process and everyone wants complete and correct in every way for the same. Based on perfection on real and self-perception, the following process can be viewed. First, Expectations that reflect the real aim of the person. Real expectations make real perfection easier. Expectations can also be reflected as the standards for the task. Expectations are decided by the capabilities and competencies of a person. Further, Satisfaction is the biggest and next step towards real perfection. If a person is perfect for the outside world, but in real not truly satisfied by his efforts, that’s the false perfection or just a false representation of perfection. Expectation and satisfaction when matched together, make perfection in the task in a real way for a person who he can truly feel confident about it.

Just like change is the only constant thing, perfection can never be constant in the imperfect world. No person can be perfect all the time, and there is always a scope for improvement for every next task. Is something messy going on in the mind? So let’s make it clear. Perfection is “an unwatched Loop” that only a few people have observed. Expectations and satisfaction can lead to perfection for a person to view from his self-observing skills, but there is always some scope for correction and completion in the next similar task or new task, then again striving for perfection and so on. It is a never-ending process because change is the king of the imperfect world as the perfect world is stagnant. If the world can’t be perfect, how can a person be perfect in every way?

Let’s remove the false assumptions of being perfect in every way, and focus on the real expectations and satisfaction in life. We should not caught up in this loop, and always focus on satisfaction rather than perfection in ourselves. Choose comfort over competition and satisfaction over perfection.


References:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/perfection
https://www.theebpnv.com/blog/oh-perfect-a-blog-about-perfectionism
https://tinybuddha.com/blog/striving-perfection-actually-holding-back/
https://tehillahjacob.medium.com/progress-over-perfection-blog-330d11c6f16c