What is Perfection? Why is it so desirable?
I'll start with the first. Perfection seems like another perspective thing. Completely subjective in all ways. You might think that perfection is the best possible outcome, no? But isn't the worst possible outcome also perfect? To quote my summer school math teacher "People aren't perfect. Only the prophets and God are" So of course, this supposed Jesus character would've been perfect, right? Because he could do no wrong? His actions never compromised his beliefs, that's why he was perfect. So in turn, isn't the Devil perfect? Wouldn't Lucifer be considered just as perfect as the prophet of christianity? But generally, he isn't. So subjectivity rules the concept of perfection.
As for its desirability. We all strive for perfection, sure, but do we really want to get there? To me, perfection is death. There's nothing left to do, no improvements to be made, no obstacles to overcome. You're done, you might as well die, because anything that you do after perfection is empty. Imagine how boring that would be! To never be able to do anything new! and imagine how lonely that has to be! And imagine the eternal anguish that would befall you if you slip. Everything you had done previously, all your perfect creations, would haunt you, an empty husk of your former self. It goes back to dying. After I got perfect, I think it would kill me to live in fear of regression.
But, thankfully, none of us are perfect. It's the act of working towards achieving perfection that gets you points.
So approach perfection, but never achieve it.
So approach perfection, but never achieve it.
For perfection is emptiness, and emptiness is death.
