Letting Go of Perfectionism and Embracing Your Imperfections
You need to score 100%! You need to top these exams! You need to be this perfect! Why this score? Haven’t you said you studied everything? Why didn’t you score like your friends?
These are some of the basic baffling exclamations and questions we heard throughout our childhood or teenage years, or if not, you might have heard them around in our society.
Where are the person’s own credibility and distinctions? Is it downplayed by our society or by our so-called loved ones?
Why does our society brutally measure ourselves against the yardsticks of others?
But how does this all come up?
Let’s cut it down and see its root cause
Some philosophers, thinkers, and psychologists pitched this concept of perfectionism while doing much detriment to human beings. This all arises from their earnest desires to achieve flawless selves and natures with ideal outcomes driven by social expectations, personal standards, or fear of criticism. To add on to this adverseness, this was influenced by factors such as upbringing, social media, and others.
However, most are aware of its adverse effects such as making excessive criticism, instilling self-doubt in any matter, and other negative practices.
We can bring about change by fostering self-compassion and embracing our imperfections. If we are not good at something, others are. No worries! We are good and skilled at different things.
There is no perfect self! All we can do is embrace our imperfections and make an effort to improve ourselves.
To sum up, I would suggest we should not yearn to achieve 100 percent of ourselves but to be a better version of ourselves and leave a lasting impact when we leave this planet one day.
