To Be Perfect

Thought of the Day

Everyone has differences that make themselves slightly unlike everyone else. These differences ultimately make everyone the same in that everyone is different; so similarities show and people can be placed into groups of people that all have similar differences. I can bet that each and every one of us have thought of themselves as 'the one that stands out', like an unlikely hero of any movie with an underdog ever. 

Sadly, this is nine times out of ten untrue. Not that everyone doesn't have their own stories to tell, but your story is ultimately somewhat similar (yet different, of course) from another's. 

People in general are also constantly looking for patterns in everything; even when there isn't one and there never will be one. So, for example, when people are looking for patterns in other people (resulting in the groups of people with similar differences I mentioned before) they tend to find breaks in these 'people patterns'. This break in the pattern would be a single person that stands out, or doesn't really seem to be categorized into any one group of people. 

These people are the ones that we portray as desirable, or "perfect". The people we want to be, but can never really quite fill the same shoes, because we are all ultimately differently similar. These people are ever so delicate, quiet, good at everything they seek and are every sense of the term "perfect"- or to any number of other individuals, they are, anyway. 

        I tend to always be drawn to those types of people, but not in the "I'm going to say hi and be your friend" kind of way; more like the "I'm just going to sit here and people-stalk you because you're absolutely freaking wonderful in every way thus I can't talk to you because I'm me" kind of way. I also can't help but think that each of these "perfect" beings must think this same way about others the way people think of them too. Does the thought of themselves always come with a "I could do this better, like __ does" or "I wish I could look like__"--the very same thoughts that are always answered by people like me with their name, never thinking of themselves as special or even remotely perfect in any way? Or are they aware of this fact, destined to live a perfect life? 

Of course not. To each and every one of us, there is a "perfect" being that we all strive to be like. But of course, we all do not strive for the same "perfect" being- we all have different people that we praise as being "perfect", because everyone is different. 

Which means, in the end, eventually every single person of all time is considered "perfect" to someone. 

It could be anyone. It could be you, or me, or that girl sitting ever so delicately reserved while waiting for class to end, unknowing that someone else is wondering why they can't be just like her. 

Everyone is different, yet similar. Everyone thinks of another as perfect, yet they never realize that someone else is also thinking of them the exact same way they are of another being- perfect- and also wishing they could be just like them. 

In the end, you are perfect to someone. So why stop being you when someone else is just as desperate to be like you as you are of someone else?