Perfection is simply an illusion in today’s society, but unfortunately, many of us seek to achieve it.

Many of us struggle with imperfection, depression, loss of motivation, and for most of it, stress as an end result. Funny how I look at my close friends and believe we understand life and can live with no worries anymore.

We count our blessings, reflect on the past, and face the future with optimism. So when I have crazy days where I messed up with a struggle or am skeptical about life’s outcome, I think about the boys and say everything is going to be okay.

Heck, we had a podcast session about it!

But the truth is growing up is just more anxiety like there is no solution in view, time seems to go so fast and there is a peak that it feels we might never reach. Regardless of where you come from, you would always feel like you could be doing better. Ignore the flashy profiles on LinkedIn and the pretty clips on IG, we all want to look prepared for the next opportunity.

We are all-time bombs exploding with doubt and trying to be confident on the outside. More money? It won’t erase the doubt, there is no 100% solution to this quarterly life crisis that would trail into a mid-life crisis eventually.

In most of my articles, I tend to define a problem and suggest solutions like the perfect world exists in Biodun’s lair. That’s not true; you think the person you envy has achieved perfection in mind and growth as an ability? Then you probably need to sit back and rethink this life thing, we all have issues, and I wish you would read that phrase again without exempting your role model from the word - all.

Well - believe it or not - someone is looking up to you too, and if they could open up your worries, what would they find? Then, put this in a wider perspective and realize that we would always have problems, maybe lesser when we grow older - I hope. But the way we handle the disappointments that come from our perceived failures now would greatly inform how we go about the next one tomorrow.

I apologize if this article did not seem like there was a flow, I just wrote wild thoughts and I still hope it makes sense. Remember, we would be fine, but not perfectly, and the earlier you realize it, the better. But all your problems would not disappear even if you lived in your perceived reality of perfect, and yes, it does not make you far from normal.

Once again, no edits but I have a feeling that I’d like to meet up with everyone who reads these articles someday. If you think you’ve got the means or the ideas to make it possible, let’s chat (samuelaguda77@gmail.com)

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