Why imperfection is the new Perfection ?

We are often asked as students to get the perfect scores, the perfect project, and deep down we all aim for a perfect life with perfect salary, perfect body, perfect or favorable circumstances and we battle and strive for this perfection in everything that we do.

I recall a phase in my life when I was in grade 12th last year I was obsessed with perfection. I wanted a perfect score in my boards. All though I managed to score above 90 and emerged as the subject topper in my college, I was deep down disappointed. I had misinterpreted a 5 marks question and had ended up writing an unsuitable answer. It was dreadful and I had sunk in the sea of disappointment. 

Once the results were out, there was a mixed feeling of amazement and disappointment. It was terrible, it affected me because I had worked hard on this subject consistently throughout the year. After some point, I questioned myself What can I do about it now? I had no answer and in retrospect, I realized in order to have that perfect score I had missed so many things. I didn't enjoy the moment, all though I did enjoy the subject I was too hard on myself. I studied not to enjoy the subject anymore but to score well. 

I love political science and when I love this subject why should I care about how much I score eventually. I should be more into enjoying the time I study the subject without thinking about any score. Enjoying what you do is happiness and I missed out on this happiness. I still strive for perfection but I love and enjoy to make the moment perfect without aiming for that perfect score.

Perfection is unattainable because there is nothing perfect. Few days are good and few days are terrible. I accepted the fact that I am not perfect and cannot strive for perfection in every aspect of my life. That it is okay to score less, to fail miserably to only emerge stronger. Today when I look back to that phase I see it as a courageous evolution I learned from that phase to strive for excellence and to enjoy every moment of it, to enjoy the errors and the trails which makes the journey so perfectly beautiful that one can marvel at.

All of us go through this phase to strive for perfection for that every perfect photo to put up on social media, to have that perfect expression, the perfect outfit, the perfect results but in the process we fail to understand that we all are perfect in all our imperfections and these imperfections makes us who we are. That we were not supposed to do or behave in a certain way and that we are a different and unique in our own ways.

Every day when I wake up I am not in a quest for perfection I am in a pursuit to enjoy every moment and definitely strive for excellence by giving my 100 percent. I feel productive, it eliminates unnecessary stress and enables me to be optimistic. Which has helped me to be a better person to pass on the positive energies to the people I can across.

To anyone who is reading this who feels and is striving for perfection, it's completely fine to be imperfect because we all are perfect in our own ways. We are perfectly kind, perfectly generous, perfectly compassionate and much more which makes us a perfectly beautiful human being. So let us embrace our imperfections and don't miss out on NOW. 

So the next time you find yourself striving to be a more perfect version of yourself, remember that the imperfect, flawed, vulnerable you is perfectly enough and that imperfection the perfection.


Thankyou

YJ Rahul Bagwe