I am sure you know people who strive to be perfect. What is striving to be perfect?
Everyone has a different perception of perfection. What I think is perfect may not be what you think is perfect. So the idea of perfection is based on the individual and we all differ.
A person striving to be perfect usually tries to do as much as they can to produce a favorable outcome based on their view of perfection. And again if we see perfection differently then your favorable outcome may only be perfection to you. There are some people who try to be perfect based on society's idea of perfection and their goals are never fulfilled because perfection as a society is ever changing and evolving. Which leads those perfectionist spiralling out of control while they try to control that which they can not.
If we all took a moment to stop and smile the roses we would learn that Doing your best, no matter what your best could be, is perfection. You don't have to strive to be what you already are.
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