What does imperfection look like? The face in the mirror — that’s imperfect. Every imperfect person, according to his or her conditioning, dreams of perfection in his or her particular way. Perfection is a concept, an imagination. So, should I chase this imaginary ideal called perfection, or should I just look at my current state? We are not okay as we are. And in this lies the inspiration to get better, to move on.
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Questioner: Sir, when I was going through the book, Truth Without Apology, there was this one simple quote. It was not exactly a quote, but a chapter heading. It says, “Continuity, Not Perfection.” Now, this is a very simple sentence, but when I read this, it confused me a lot because it went against whatever I was forcing myself to believe in. I’ll give you a little context.
This January we had our college’s interdepartmental competition, and I came up from my department for the solo dance category. There were a lot of expectations on me to bring home the winning title. When I was preparing for the solo dance, for context, I love dancing. Dancing is something that enriches my soul and lifts me up no matter how bad my mood is. But during the preparation for the dance, the expectations and this pressure to win slowly started overpowering my love for this craft.
So there were points, even during the preparation, where I felt, ‘I’ll do this dance tomorrow,’ like you study for an examination, and that scared me because this was one thing I genuinely enjoyed, something unique to me, and suddenly it was just another thing I had to do. Now, even after I won the title, I did not feel half the happiness I thought I would feel. You know the ‘yes, I did it’ moment was not really that big of a deal.
