Being Perfect

 Every day from my primary school itself, I have strived to be a perfectionist. Trying to perfect everything I learn or know. Whether it’d be skating or basketball or writing, I would always try to perfect it. I had always been hard on myself when I can’t seem to perfect a particular skill. For instance, I had always found socializing and playing outdoors tremendously difficult. I would always think why I couldn’t do it. Everyone around me were always encouraging me and telling me to always do it but I simply couldn’t. Even though I never told or showed it, but I did feel upset on not being able to do these activities. For me a perfectionist was a person who is good at everything they do. I could never become the perfectionist that I had envisioned. But one day, a talk with my cousin changed my vision. Between our conversations I asked him if he had been a good or a perfect student back when he was in school. He told me that I should know that a person in any circumstances can never be perfect and further asked me what qualities of a student I was asking him about. Our conversation went on. I had agreed with him then but later when I thought about our conversation I had realized that a perfectionist didn’t mean to be good at whatever you do but it meant being good at one thing that can and will focus on. No one can ever be perfect. Everyone has different definitions on being perfect. It just depends on your definition of being perfect. I don’t need to go by everyone’s vision of how to be perfect; rather, I could have my own of definition of perfectionism. Each of us can have our own definition of being perfect and strive to achieve it. 

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