Hangman

Just do what you can. Nothing more is required. Slow down. Calm down. Remember to breathe.

Nobody is perfect.

So why do we all feel the need to be perfect?

Why do we get taught that we should aim to be perfect,

Yet told at the same time that nobody can get to that goal?

When you fail at something, what do you do?

One of two;

Try again.

Trying again follows the teaching demand,

Aim to be perfect.

Some may disagree and say “aim to be the best you can be”.

‘The best’ means perfect.

‘The best YOU can be’ just means personal perfect.

It's all the same.

Trying again is just refusing to realise failure.

The other option is to give up.

Surrender.

I don’t see it as a bad thing.

The feeling you get when you give up,

That strange feeling of release,

That’s you letting go of the need to be perfect.

So why do we all feel the need to be perfect?

Simple.

Which would you rather have?

Fake perfection or real failure?

The answer is relatively obvious in most cases.

What about being taught to aim for perfection?

It's not the teaching that presents a problem.

It's more the teacher.

If you choose to teach perfection, you need to have learned it first.

Do you have a degree in perfection?

Did you get your GCSE in flawless?

What makes a teacher entitled to say ‘aim to be perfect’,

When they, themselves, are not so?

A person cannot teach art if they have no idea how to hold a brush.

They can only deliver the extent of their own knowledge.

Not perfect.

S why should I aim to be perfect when nobody else is?

That says a lot about perfection.

Impossible.

How can you say that I, out of over seven billion people,

I can be perfect?

And then feed the exact same bullshit to 24 other students.

Perfection is a game.

Some people give up after realising how many attempts they have.

Some keep failing until the end,

Until the final failure.

Everyone has a breaking point, the time until it comes is just how many letters you get.

We all break down eventually.

So why do we need to be perfect?

We don’t.

The game isn’t about getting the full word with no wrong letters.

It’s not about failing miserably either.

Getting a letter is the important bit.

Don’t aim for the complete word, just aim for a letter.

Don’t aim to be perfect, just aim to be good enough.

It’s still better than nothing.