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Perfection isn’t a myth.
It’s what you already are.
In the middle of this epidemic of burned-out perfectionists, we tend to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The cause of the problem isn’t the hunt for perfection as an impossible state – what burns us out is our inability to recognize perfection.
It’s easier to see watching natural processes.
A seed is perfect, then it breaks to let out the seedling. The seedling’s perfection is easy to see even as it continues to morph and change and grow, all the way to the tallest tree. Just as all forms, the tree eventually dies, providing space and nutrients for other plants in death.
Human life is the same.
When we stop looking for perfection as a finite state that never changes, it becomes easy to see that every moment, just as it is, is perfect.
Perfection is a moment in a state of flux in a fluid universe.
Allowing yourself to be that, every moment, you can drop the hunt to be something better – maybe tomorrow, or next year – someone who is better than what you already are, right now.
