Seeking Perfection Isn’t Virtuous, It’s Problematic

  Seeking perfection is an endless and impossible task. Indeed, when the ideals you set for yourself are too high, it becomes far more difficult to achieve them. In fact, you feel emotionally and psychologically exhausted, because you’re fighting with yourself. Then, you feel guilty. You start beating yourself up for not having been able to achieve perfection. In the search for so-called ‘perfection’, you have to mold yourself based on what you consider to be ‘desirable’. You want to be the one who’s most loved, who’s never wrong, the chosen one, the one who obtains the highest qualifications, and…