14 DAY TRIAL // "Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it" - Salvador Dali
Perfection - The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill or moral excellence; maturity; as, perfection in art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection. A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence. To perfect.
For some reason or another people have been fascinated since always with this perfection. Maybe because people are always attracted by things out of reach or maybe, because there is actually something noble inside us, something that pushes us further, to a superior state of evolution... Wouldn't that be great?
Anyway? perfection. Can it be applied to anything or can it only belong to a privileged category of things, people and events? There was a time when it was clear to everybody that only God was perfect. Perfection was attributed to God and God alone. "The divine attribute of complete excellence"!!! Nowadays, since talking burning bushes do not await us around the corner anymore, we tend and sometimes crave to reach perfection, or apparent perfection, in everything that we do. But every time we reach a new high, we master something, we suddenly become aware of the fact that we are stagnating, there's no place to go further from there, there's only the road back. So we redefine perfection, we change the rules of the game a little and the chase continues. But what makes those changes happen? What influences us in redefining perfection? And where can anyone begin a search for such answers? Where could you find a complex source that could feed you all sorts of useful information? ? The Internet, of course! I'll just go ask Google. Isn't that what you're supposed to do whenever in doubt about something? So that's exactly what I did. I opened the browser, typed the magic words www.google.com and there it was, the priceless search engine. I typed in the word perfection, pressed the other magic word: ENTER (doesn't it sound just like in a fairytale?) and these are the first results that came back to me:
The first result on the list was a site for the Perfection Learning Corporation that offers "instructional materials and classroom books from Perfection Learning Corporation". Second on the list was Perfect Corporation (no learning involved this time) - Plastic & Steel Piping Products which turns out to be ?world's leading manufacturer of mechanical joining products for natural gas and propane gas ..." Next on the list I found Publishing Perfection, that appears to be, as the site promotes, my ?source for digital content creation". (!!!) The fourth site looked a lot more promising and closer to the presumed seriousness of the word "perfection". It is a site dedicated to the "exploration of the various ways that the human race has attempted to achieve perfection through philosophies and technologies of the past century". The title was also extremely luring?."welcome to visions of perfection".
The sixth entry in my list was a link to the fresh food revolution?
The only link of that page to have only the word Perfection written in big blue letters looked like a gathering of random information about whoever, including ?biography, lyrics, tour dates, pictures, video, and games available". The link proved to be a dead end. Apparently they've stopped working under perfection a long time ago. Probably didn't work out that way and the creators of the site decided to settle for less. The description for the next site was less than comprehensive: coming?.(???), followed by other random topics. And last but not least, on Google's first page of search for the word perfection, my instant favorite: a link about cats?
One of the obvious things here is that perfection seems to be pretty much everywhere. Is this word losing its meaning or are we living in a world full of perfect things? Is the presence of such a heavy word (just think about it: "the quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting") justified next to so many random things? Trends will eventually change and all these things, if perfect now, will once again have to improve or change to a new state of presumed perfection until? So the use of the word is abundant and sometimes careless and I guess we're running out more and more of terms and labels for what we do and the world around us. In the end, this perfection thing is just a question of taste, isn't it?