The desire and obsession with perfection can mar your thinking pattern and create a cesspool of negativity that one can drown in.
There is no problem with aiming at perfection. It is a good way to work with your goals and objectives. However, the pitfall lies in interpreting the outcome when things don’t shape up well.
John Lennon said that “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans”. There you have it – truth from one of earth’s profound poets. Things don’t go as planned – so what? You make amends. Wallowing in self pity is symptomatic of our lack of understanding of the process of life. Rolling is the dirt is not the best way of becoming clean.
Positive thinking is not about fooling yourself or rationalizing all the important feedback that you get from your friends, peers, colleagues, school, and college or from home. Feedback has its value. A disease is a feedback that you have not been paying attention to how you have been treating your body. Failure is a feedback showing you that you need to prepare for something. Positive thinking is about assessing the feedback in a motivating manner and without any ridicule to oneself. We are our harshest critics, as some say.
It’s a harsh world. There is no need to make it more so with ridicule to oneself. However, there are times when it’s ok to Thank God that elephants don’t fly!!
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