Parsing Perfection | 4 April 2024

Thoughts to come back to | 14 September 2016 [Re-Upload]

I appreciate that you actually read all of that! I always assume I’m throwing my words out into the void, so I’m happy whenever interaction happens.

Before I address your points, I just want to start by saying that since this is from way back, so much of what is written here is more of a time capsule rather than my current beliefs. So I agree with you that there’s plenty of contradiction in the mess of my thoughts.

Now, with that out of the way – I’ll try to address my perspective of perfection. I don’t see perfection as a static state. And I agree with you that an idealistic socialist society that removes all struggle from life sounds like hell. Since life is ever-changing, it’s impossible to create a static state that accounts for all the possibilities/randomness of life.

That’s why I find perfection in the process (of good design). The pursuit of perfection is its self – the state of being in perfection. It’s not that something is perfect because it no longer needs to change, but because it’s accounted for change, thus maintains pace with perfection.

I’m not entirely happy with how I phrased that, but my words are escaping me at the moment. So here’s a different perspective I found in another note of mine:

“Perfection isn’t physically defined. There can always be something ‘better.’ But even so, perfection exists. It’s not a thing, but a state of being. That’s why I say you’re perfect, because when we’re together, I experience Perfection. You can’t ruin that, because to me, everything is perfect when we’re together, no matter what.”

To connect this with my previous explanation, I find the process of being with this person as perfect. The relationship isn’t perfect because either of us is perfect. Rather, no matter how we change, for better or worse, through the good & bad – I would never change what happens when together with them, no matter what the process produces. Whether we’re on cloud 9 or stumbling through hell, I wouldn’t ever want to change our story.