“Pobody’s Nerfect!” - A month back or so, I read it as a status message on WhatsApp of one of my friends (M.S.) & honestly could not understand it in one go. It forced me to read it once again & I got the meaning... “Nobody’s Perfect!” ... just written in a very imperfect manner!
It kind of
provoked me to think more & more about the meaning of ‘perfection’ &
the tendency behind being perfect or rather being perfectly imperfect. An
alphabet plays a major role in conveying the correct meaning.... & an incorrect
meaning as well!
Nobody is Perfect!
How true! If it wasn’t so, there wouldn’t have been so many creatures on the earth with so
many tendencies & mentalities. And maybe, then the world wouldn’t have been
a real good place to live. As they say, “There is no fun in life if everything
is perfect. There has to be something missing in everything”. The term ‘perfection’
is incomplete without the existence of imperfection. Just like, the light has
importance because darkness exists and the air has importance because vacuum exists.
No one would know the power of ‘Good’ unless there is presence of ‘Bad’
somewhere. (All film industries across the globe
survive on this concept of ‘Good’ vs. ‘Bad’... it’s their bread-n-butter damn
it! :-P)
On a completely different
level of thought, I feel that we are being driven by one force to the same
destination. Just that we are taking different journeys and along our journey,
we sometimes bump into each other, we cross paths... we take different physical
forms. But at all times, we are never 100% perfect. I’m not perfect for your journey
and you’re not perfect for mine. Or we can say... I’m perfect for my journey and you are
perfect for yours.
“Nobody is Perfect
& I’m Nobody” is sort of a funny quote that we see printed on t-shirts just
to show an attitude. Jokes apart.... but ‘perfect’ is just a term that actually
means ‘pretty close to 100%’. It’s no fun being 100% as there is nothing to
gain more, achieve more & then there is no scope for improvement. It’s
static... stagnant... saturated! As Leo Tolstoy says, “If you look for perfection,
you'll never be content.”
One of my theatre
mentors used to say, “Try going near perfection... but don’t try to be perfect.
It will stop you from performing better next time.”
So friends... Stay
perfectly imperfect... Move on towards better...
Cheers!
- ab
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