Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Imperfection

Have you ever had those weird days, where everything just doesn't seem alright? Where whatever you say or do seems to be either silly or wrong in the views of others and yourself? These are the days where frustration is at its most optimum level, and where despair and anger kicks in and the feelings of guilt, sadness and decrepidness surround your mind and you just cannot seem to shake em off. These days come almost once, twice or three times a month. And if they don't happen monthly or yearly, they're bound to appear somewhere in your life. The most frightening thing about this day is the fact that you don't know that it's here or coming- these days will hit you even when you're at your strongest, happiest and most self-accepting state of your life. No matter how big you are, how smart you are, how smart, good looking and popular you are, how gifted, ugly, stupid, tall, short, fat, skinny, ect. you are, one thing is certain and agreeable amongst people with all these characteristics: those days suck. Sometimes, it'll seem as though they'll never end, like an everlasting nightmare, you beg for the days to stop, and plead to God that it's all a dream and when you go to bed, you pray that things'll be much better and smoother the next occuring day. For others, the event seems to be very rare, as they may not experience such ambient loneliness and may regard those days as just " bad days." So therefore, they may be much more optimistic in nature, and may look at the positives of things: " at least we live in Canada, where second chances are typically given on a constant basis, and where good can be found in ugly, and where opportunities of change and salvation are at almost every corner- given that the people care for salvation, change and given that they WANT to help others get throught their most immense difficulties and stress."

No one on this planet can possibly be 100% perfect. Not everyone can be perfect at sports, music, academics, popularity, diversity, socialization, ect. And not everyone can be the biggest, the strongest, the fastest and the most dangerous or funniest/the most skilled, and not everyone can be the happiest, the most respectful, the most courageous, responsible, and even the people who are deemed the strongest and smartest may fall short on their bad days. And when they do, people will see them as being show-offs, fakes, losers and overrated in their strongest aspects and characteristics. Pianists can screw up in competitions, and singers/painters may be off on a key or on detail. Writers may run out of ideas, and boxers may get knocked out clean. Whatever the situation is, it doesn't matter. As mentioned before, sometimes, these things continue to happen, and sometimes they abruptly occur, out of the blue and for many, it seems as if the world is over and they go ballistic, start blaming themselves, and complain and groan about how they "could've" or "should've" done or prevented something. Some go so far, they either retire, quit or harm themselves and others to ease up their nerves.

Many of us have been through the above experiences. I have definitely gone through many of the experiences listed, and have complained and moaned about the issue so much, that I would just practically give up. It wasn't until I stumbled upon the reality of it all: that no one in the world is 100% perfect, and the reality that there are hundreds and millions out there who have the same days and feelings that I do, if not worse. So in conclusion, humans cannot possibly reach perfection 100% of the time. They all make mistakes and all gain and lose one way or another. If things were to be too perfect, there would be no need to improve, practice or enhance skills or things which we possess today, and there would be no point of learning. In fact, if everyone were to be perfect and capable of doing everything at the most optimum level, there would be no point in hosting competitions, as there would be no winner or uniqueness. Be unique in your own way.

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