i've been constantly barraged by one man's unbelievable call, clamor, advocacy for perfection. any quest for attaining perfection is nothing but a wild-goose chase and that's how i see it. a thing which i've been having a hard time communicating to my boss. nobody's perfect, period. he thinks otherwise and i can not counter that. just one of the taboos in the corporate world i guess--not letting one's boss know he's totally wrong about one thing, especially if he strongly believes it to be true, solid as a pope to his faith. or monk or jew. so yeah, it's my boss who's expecting nothing less than perfection from me, in my work, in everything i do. he's all nuts about perfection and ever relentless in preaching and imbibing in me the doctrines of perfection that i'm slowly starting to accept that man's imperfection is horribly abnormal. this leads me to this question. is perfection even possible? i'd say yes. but to a certain degree. one could be a perfect cook who comes up with a perfect dish all the time, but he could also be a terrible driver at the same time, or basketball player, or liar or lover. see the point? man could be so damn good, even perfect in one thing or two, but not in everything. i'm pretty sure its just not doable, absolutely impossible. not that i'm finding an excuse for being imperfect, well maybe i am, but that's not the point. i can be ridiculously close to being perfect in some things but hey, i'm only human, and a man at that, raised as a kid and grew up believing that the idea that nobody's perfect is an absolute truth. but now, like a christian shattered by the news that there's no God, i am starting to doubt the assumed fact that no man is perfect. is man really capable of attaining perfection? or is he just too lazy to even attempt reaching it? had it been a conspiracy amongst early humans to just accept the idea about man's imperfection as truth to save them the enormous hassle of upholding perfection? all of this makes me wonder if any of what boss has been saying bear any truth to it. come to think of it, man may have the ability to achieve perfection. with the right motivation, the right outlook and extreme determination, hell, it could be possible.perhaps the sheer pressure of consistently being perfect is too enormous for man that it's preferable, convenient even, for everybody to just accept that man, despite it's ability to attain perfection, is just imperfect and will simply choose to be so. lets just say everything is possible, and one pessimistic lazy-ass came up with the word impossible, preached it to the crowd, turned it into a religion and successfully amassed a multitude of followers. i think same goes with perfection. it is attainable, a universal truth just universally denied. supposedly a fact effectively corrupted by the thought that nobody is perfect. on the other hand, man's imperfection could be doing us a huge favor. life would be less as fun as it is now if everything and everybody is perfect, wouldn't it?
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