Idea of Perfection

Here's something that popped in my mind all of a sudden and I want to write it down so I can see if it makes sense or not. This is free-writing---i type as the thoughts come in. You are not required to make sense out of it. But if it does make sense to you, you're welcome and thanks for reading.

The tragedy of life comes from the fact that humanity can never accept that life is not perfect. Every single human being has his own idea of a perfect life and each one wants to achieve it. That in itself is not a problem. We are all entitled to imagine and dream of a beautiful life. Who doesn't want a beautiful, perfect life? The problem is, there are some people among us who will do everything to achieve their ideal life without a thought about how it affects others. There are those who doesn't care if they ruin other people's dreams so they can reach their own.

But if you would think about it, every time you reach your dream, someone loses his. That's how life goes. We cannot all be presidents or superstars or millionaires. Life is a win or lose game and we are all winners and losers. Although I must admit some people are worst off than others and most of us lose more than we win. Still, at some point in our lives, we win. I always believe that life's imperfection makes it perfect. I guess you will never really be able to say that you have lived if you haven't experienced a little bit of everything.

I guess we all do what we do to make our vision of a perfect life real. The choices we make, the groups we join, the jobs we took, all of it to find a way to make our lives perfect. Or at least close to perfect.

Here's the thing, we all have different perceptions of what is perfect. We all strive to make things perfect. That's good. As long as we remember that sometimes our idea of perfection may totally be the opposite of what some people may call perfect. Sometimes, it is not bad to remember our differences. I guess remembering these differences makes us considerate and help us respect other people's idea of perfection and happiness. We cannot force people to see our vision of perfection.

You know what makes the idea of perfection tragic? because it is not real and humans have problems processing the difference between "real world" and "ideal world". You see, the ideal world is a perfect world. Everything you want the world to be: fair, happy, romantic, rich, etc . Real world is imperfect. It is a world made of everyone's idea of a perfect world. It is a world of happiness and sadness, laughter and pain, success and failure.

At some point, something happens and we think we have finally made our lives perfect, then life (being the bitch that she is) slaps us and returns us to reality. Result? We get hurt. But we are humans. It is in our nature to seek for anything that makes us happy. We gravitate to the things that makes us happy. We get attracted to what we think is perfect or close to what we think is perfect. Again and again we do our best to make things as close to perfect as we can. Sometimes we get it, sometimes we don't.

And my idea of a perfect world? A world were there is tolerance, respect, and equality. A world were nobody is killed because of religion or political beliefs. A world were everyone is accepted regardless of race, social status and choice of gender. A world were everyone has what they need and doesn't have to have sleepless nights to get it. A world were there is no pain, no sadness, no heartaches. More like Narnia minus the White Witch. *sigh* If you would think about it, even Narnia isn't perfect.

In the end, we are all just adventurers in this world.We go out and seek for happiness and perfection. Some returns triumphant. Some fails. Some dies along the way. It's like being in an expedition I guess. One big expedition to make the world perfect. It's a long journey and not all of us will succeed. That is reality.