This post is in response to Mohammed’s post. Here

I agree with your idea, and that perfection does not mean happiness. While it is often perceived that these two are related, the focus on perfection blinds usually the individual from seeing happiness. Additionally perfection also promotes a problem, “that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated” (Franklin 9). By being a perfect person, people are jealous of you. They will hate the fact that you are better than them in every aspect. It could possibly cut you off from your peers. They don’t want to be associated with you, because they look bad. In the long-run, are you really perfect? People don’t like something about you, wouldn’t you technically be flawed? That then brings me to one of your lines, “Improving oneself and striving to better oneself is a courageous act but being perfect doesn’t directly guide one to happiness and fulfillment. One can have many flaws, accept it and find happiness within it.” I agree with your statement, and I like it a lot. Our flaws are what drive us to be better people, being perfect we would never need to grow in our life. Being perfect, we would all be the same and boring. Sometimes we have to accept who we are and move on with life.