illusion of perfection

we all say " i am going to have a perfect job", a "perfect family life", "perfect holiday" so on.
but what is perfection?
perfection is when something that we have planned go along completely according to the plan or when we achieve a state where all our desires are satisfied 100%.

in short perfection means 100%.

but is there such a thing as 100%?
will there be any fun if things we do turn out to be perfect? when we plan to do some thing and the result is achieved perfectly, we learn absolutely nothing from it. we become mere assemblers of a design rather than synthesizing something interesting.
whenever we do something unexpected obstacles come up, causing our cranium to get hyper active. and it is in those charged moments that mankind's greatest ideas bear fruit, right? so will there be any fun in anything we do if there is no randomness or aberrations?
consider travelling. u board a bus to go from kochi to bangalore. in a perfect travel, u board the bus, watch some lousy movie, fit yourselves into some cramped seats and sleep till u reach bangalore. absolute drivel if you ask me. now consider suddenly in the midst of nowhere there is some tire puncture or some other obstacle. wont life be suddenly interesting. sure it will be scary to some and irksome to many but i believe those are the real moments of life when u learn a lot. it is when unforeseen incidents happen that we are at our most active. talents, strengths and emotions u never knew u had exhibits itself during these moments.
let me show another example, when our teacher tells us we have an exam tomorrow, 55% of us dont study as that is yet another part of the murderous academic schedule. but what if when we attend yet another comatose lecture the lecturer suddenly announce a surprise test unbelievable energies animate our erstwhile lifeless bodies into sudden actions of procuring paper and for some like me, pen or pencil. and we even do better than when the test is pre announced.

i am proud to say that on occasions like these the back seat brigands like me who regularly flunk regular tests do far better than the established brainy front seat bastards. apparently surprises like these are unwarranted aberrations for those perfectionists and we the aberrants thrive on aberrations!!!

and i do wish to make a point that it is aberrants like me, who really make up the world. consider isaac newton who postulated the field of mechanics and the story of how his cerebral neurons were triggered by the impact of a falling apple. the Aberrants Society believe that it was not an apple but a projectile black board duster that hit the hibernating genius and gave him the necessary stimulus.
and what about alfred einstein, he was never a person who walked the beaten path. he was a characteristic aberrant.
michelangelo another aberrant created some of the most magnificent works of art we have seen.
almost all innovations and discoveries have been the product of aberrations, albeit serendipitous . if perfection was the way forward human civilization would have stagnated and never have advanced.
and even when we see that something is perfect it shall never be. the natural entropy will have created some aberrations that will render it its peculiar charm.
consider the leaning tower of pisa. had it not been leaning it would have been yet another church tower in a land of a million churches.


so should we not strive for perfection? i say we definitely should. unless we decide to strive for perfection there wont be any avenues for development. but we should see perfection for what it is - an idealism. a utopian idealism and nothing more.
just like good people live good life so that they go to a non existent heaven and thus live a a heavenly life here on earth.

in short you cannot enjoy the sights unless you start on a journey with a definite destination.