“Things don’t need to be perfect, we are creatures eminently suited to ‘good enough,’” Unknown.  Another slight paradox in the human psyche and condition.  While we all strive to look perfect, there is no such thing as perfection—we can always strive for our best but nothing is ever truly perfect.  The actual definition of perfect is too subjective for us to really come to a conclusion about what perfection is.  The best we can do is learn to accept that everything that is, is already perfect.  We are meant to do our best until we know better—and when we know better we do better.  There are differing degrees of perfection because we are at varying levels when we are doing our best.  The best constantly changes.  Good enough isn’t a matter of settling because we aren’t determined to stop at a certain point, good enough is the marker of perfect for where we are in a given moment—and then we get to decide if we want to move to the next level or move onto something else altogether.  We all have different ideas of what needs to be perfect because we all have different desires and interests so our focus is different from person to person.

Perfection itself simultaneously exists and is a myth.  The idea of perfection was introduced as a means of control.  Think about it—there was a point when the only goal for humans or any other creature was survival.  It didn’t matter what it looked like as long as whatever we used and were doing served its purpose to get us through to the next level, to keep us going.  As we developed more means to survive and to help more people survive, the idea of controlling our advancement became popular—and to control advancement you need to control people and their goals/aims.  So we started telling people we needed to do things a certain way or it would all fall apart.  We lost touch with our creativity and exhausted resources (including ourselves) thinking anything less than or done differently than what we were told was a waste of time.  Anything we have done over time has served a purpose to carry us forward.  The fact that we made it, whether messy or clean, is really the only thing that matters.  Sure, we’d all like to arrive tied up in a little bow, but we are meant to remember that arriving is enough.  It’s ok to accept good enough because it either moves us forward or we let that go.