The Fight With Perfection

Authors note: This is inspired by the first 3 chapters of Jelkyl and Hyde where the lawyers fights with perfection and that made me think of today and just how the fight is still there. The quote i was inspired by is in italics and is how the whole thing starts off.

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; and that was the lawyer’s way. To have no problems or secrets to hide forcing one to not be able to perform at full potential; and that was the lawyer’s way. Being what everyone expected and nothing away from the ordinary; that was the lawyer’s way. What if the lawyer’s way isn’t how one lives? What if secrets are eating away at the inside but cannot be let out until the end? Can you still be a lawyer then? Society has the definition of what perfection is and the line between perfect and wrong has no space in between. One is either perfect or not. In the end no one falls on the perfect side but, this stops no one from keeping up with the fight with perfection because this is what we are told we need to be even if it is achieving the impossible. Should this picture of perfection allow someone to give up only because they can’t achieve this impossible picture? Face it. When you think of certain thing then you automatically get this picture of what you believe is perfect. For example I need: longer hair, bigger boobs, a better boyfriend, more friends, better grades, more money, prettier face, cuter clothes, skinnier body and then I would be perfect. But, in reality this will never happen because it is the impossible. The words that appear the most are more, better, bigger, and smaller which these words ruin lives just so that people can be “perfect”. Why do we need to be perfect? Why do we live by what society tells us we need to be? Why?