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I am tired of perfection

The trap all humans fall into.

Darren Andrew Fielding
Motivate the Mind
3 min readFeb 26, 2022

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Pond pretending it’s a mirror. Image by author

We chase it constantly, with an awe-inspiring consistency, we passionately pursue perfection. We scratch at it in our paintings and rub it out in our scribbles.

Our passion for perfection is a disease, of this I’m convinced. We are infected from birth as we are hand reared by society to be ‘perfect’ versions of who the world wants us to be.

Perfect bodies

Perfect minds

Perfect sons

Perfect daughters

Perfect students

Perfect athletes

Perfect lovers

Perfect workers

Perfect creators

Perfect guest

Perfect hosts

Perfect parents

When are we allowed to be ourselves, at work or school we have to be on and engage in everything. After that we have to ‘nail it’ in sports practice or whatever social avenues we frequent, or we have to be a perfect example of some random thing, our community of imperfect projectors portraying themselves as perfect, expect us to be.

It… is….

Exhausting!!!!

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Darren Andrew Fielding
Darren Andrew Fielding

Written by Darren Andrew Fielding

Believer. Husband. Creative. Photographer. Musician. Poet. Hoper. Writer. Encourager. South African. Human. Crypto Enthusiast.

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