As I sit…
reading the glossy magazine I have purchased earlier today I wonder and then realise why we feel the need to reach perfection in our lives, relationships and work and why we assume that a relationship which is only harmonious 90 per cent of the time and a house that is never fully finished must be a sure sign of failure. It is because that in today’s societies too much is expected of us, everywhere we look there is perfection, from the billboard images with perfect bodies displaying perfect cosmetics to the commercials showing perfect houses with their glistening perfect interiors to these glossy magazines with their couples gazing deliriously at one another, who apparently never communicate a crossed word between them.
Now these things wouldn’t bother me if they were simply there for our entertainment and for us too use for our amusement, because us, the real people, know that life isn’t actually like that but unfortunately these images do bother me, these images and ideals that are projected around our society are promoted as the way we ought to be living our lives and that these objects of desire must become our one and only goal in life, we must strive for the beautiful material objects and the outwardly looking perfect relationship and apparently we can have it all , its easy, our houses should look like this and our bodies should look like that and god forbid if they don’t because there is no excuse, sadly we have fallen into the trap of thinking that anything less then perfect is a failure, yes failure, what happened to anything less than perfect being normal? perfection is few and far between, it is what we all strive for and never actually reach, we should be proud of that, we should be proud that we would rather spend our time living our lives than worrying about reaching this visual perfection so that others out there may put us on a pedestal and compliment our gleaming kitchens, our showroom lounges, our cleanly scrubbed and pressed children and our fairytale relationships, who needs the hassle, who cares if you argued last night and this morning, who cares if the oven needs cleaning and if there’s and inch of dust on the mantelpiece, who cares? trust me we all need to put the brakes on this phenomenon of worrying about not reaching the perfection goal, you may not believe me but you are there already, you have the perfect houses, the perfect lives and the perfect relationships, you are the ones who are living life and making the most of every second, you are the ones laughing, loving, arguing and playing you are the agony aunt, the listener, the nurse maid, the friend not to mention the partner and the lover you are the cook, the handyman and the taxi driver but most of all you are a human being with real emotions and if this glove fits you better than the glove that we are being forced to wear then I would like to put you up on a billboard and print your life in a glossy magazine as this is what should be portrayed as perfection , real ‘perfect’ people with real ‘perfect’ lives.
