Reaching for unreachable

I saw this quote on Twitter the other day, and I don’t know exactly what it was but it said something to the extent of the following:

Don’t get upset about having flaws, and don’t criticize others for having flaws. Flaws are what makes humans unique; they make life interesting.

It was probably worded a bit better than that, but that’s all I can do for you right now.

Anyways, I saw that and my mind immediately started thinking about it. We all know that nobody is perfect. There is not a person in the world that hasn’t made a mistake or done something they wish they wouldn’t have. So, in a way, having flaws doesn’t make us unique. Having flaws makes us just like everyone else in the world, who also has flaws. It’s not some stand out thing to make mistakes. I don’t think having flaws makes life any better in any way. I think that the process of learning to react to the flaws and improve after you see them is what makes life more enriching and fulfilling. It’s one thing to learn a lesson verbally as a kid, but it’s a completely different thing to learn a lesson from an experience that maybe didn’t turn out as well as you would have liked it to. Some of the most impressive lessons a human learns are ones through experience, where they can see the repercussions and the impact it really made.

Now all that is just fluff. It’s all stuff everybody’s heard before. I’m not breaking any new ground there.

But how about this? How about not letting the fact that nobody’s perfect make it okay to not try to be perfect. What’s so bad about striving to not have flaws anymore? If someone came up to you and told you that they were trying to go an entire week doing everything the right way, you’d probably think they were some super cocky, unrealistic person. Striving for perfection is almost looked down upon.

Is it possible to be perfect? Absolutely not. But that fact stopping people from trying is stupid to me. You shouldn’t let mistakes discourage you, but you shouldn’t brush them off and think that they couldn’t have been avoided. Living for an unattainable goal seems empty and kinda foolish, but I think it can be really rewarding. Never reaching the goal doesn’t mean you failed, it means you tried to reach something that nobody else did — and I think that fact alone can take your life to a whole new level.