Chasing Perfection

Here's what I know: All our lives, from the first moment we begin to dream, from the time we start to believe that we will achieve everything we want most in life, we begin to seek perfection in all we do, in all we create. We become focused on obtaining perfection, and in doing so we lose sight of the very thing we wanted originally. The "means" obliterates the "end."

In writing, I can self-correct and analyze every word I choose to use, replacing, rewriting, revising until there is nothing left of the original piece anymore. Books don't get finished. Manuscripts are tossed aside. Nothing is ever good enough. This is chasing perfection, and perfection, no matter who you are or what you do, doesn't exist in this realm.

So instead of destroying creation in this relentless pursuit of that which will never be, it is better to let your self go and love that which we do create. Because in reality, there always will be those who will stand in your way, or who will tell you your work isn't worthy: they, too, are seeking perfection.

Don't believe them. Anything created from you is co-created with the divine, and is perfect in and of itself. And that should be enough...