The Paradox of People

It is in my experience with people that I have discovered that people don't want perfection. Perfection repels and isolates. People don't want to see you on a pedestal. They think the pedestal will fall on them. It is weird how that works. All our lives, we've been taught to be good members of society. But we're expected never to achieve perfection. Perhaps because the thought of perfection on anyone is scary. Instead, we glorify the humanness in all of us. We glorify the ability to make mistakes. Everyone wants someone or something they can relate to. We celebrate that we can "learn" from our own mistakes and other people's mistakes. We crave the fatally flawed. But we don't celebrate achieving the very thing that we strive for - perfection. We celebrate goals being accomplished but we're quick to point out that there are new goals to be undertaken. In fact, those new goals and your lack of accomplishing them tragically overshadow any achievement that you thought you could bask in the glory of. You strive to be better people so that one day you could be the perfect exemplars of all the ideals that your society holds dear. You do this thinking that it will make you one with your people, one with your society. You do this only to find out that they don't appreciate your achieved perfection. They only appreciate your struggle.