Most of us are burdened by the desire to seek perfection in all aspects of our life. We want to see ourselves in a state of flawlessness, without any imperfections and weaknesses. By being a part of such a generation where we measure everything in terms of profit and loss situations, we've learned to attribute that happiness to success, measuring every stage of our life by our accomplishments and goals attained. Like a poor analogy, most of us think of happiness as the end of climbing a ladder and success just being a measure of it.
Success or perfection was never a reflection of happiness, but more like the other way around. How happy you are after what you've accomplished is the ultimate measure of success. If perfection and success lead to happiness, then wouldn't the richest people be the happiest people? I believe that the most successful aren't always the happiest, as they choose to give up on a part of themselves on their way to the top. Individuals that look for perfection everywhere they go are easily influenced by the judgments of others. You can't be in two places at the same time, nor can you engage two thoughts simultaneously. Every moment you choose to bring yourself down by judging yourself or giving other people a chance to judge you is a moment you did not choose a healthier and wiser option.
Think of how this impacts your well-being and your relationships with the people close to you. If you're not going to be there for your own self, then how would you be present for someone else? Would you want someone dear to you go through the same discontent? Such measuring severs our participation in and with life. If one's always lost in the self-analytical measurement game, then they'd never be able to engage in the flow of life.
A person's well-being has diverse parts to it. Understanding one's fundamental strengths and incorporating them everyday leads to bring out a change you'd wish to see in the world around you and make a great difference in someone else's life, as well as yours on a whole. There must have been times when you made every second of your life count, been there for people who did not see the good in you or got every answer right on the hardest exam, but perfection is not a synonym for happiness. By believing in pushing against one's limits and weaknesses, opposing everything that was ever destined for you from the time of your birth, proving that perfection, given the power and determination is completely worthless in itself, holding a value in a society that made it the criterion of worth. No physical limitation imposed by external sources can have a bearing on the ultimate potential of an individual, especially the one with a happy spirit.
