When I was younger, I thought being perfect was having a clean room, doing chores before my parents got home and making it to school before the bell rang for first period. As I got older I learned that perfect meant having an arched eyebrow, reaching 100 likes on Instagram, having designer everything and praying for a C in my hardest classes.
As a 20-year-old, you hate getting upset over the little things; being ignored with text messages, constantly unraveled by parents, friends, and grades. You learn to become perfectly imperfect. At one point in life, you realize the world we live in is far from perfect. The people around us are far from perfect, and unfortunately, we are far from perfect as well. We can all stop searching for the perfect job, the perfect car, the perfect guy/girl and the perfect bracelet for the Apple Watch.
If we take a moment to stop searching for perfection, we can find freedom to live within our imperfections. We live in a society that drowns us with expectations around every topic imaginable; from how much we should weigh, what clothes we should wear, and what career we should choose. Perfectionism is the belief that we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect. Humans are physically and spiritually wired to love, to be loved and to belong. Love is something that makes us numb, happy, and all the above. It controls our actions and changes our mood in the blink of an eye.
If you take a deep breath and stop overthinking and overanalyzing, you will get a better understanding of why it's okay to be perfectly imperfect.
