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May 14 - May 17, 2024
What they sometimes have trouble with is understanding why they still feel so disappointed by imperfection in the face of that intellectual concession. What they sometimes wonder about is why they feel so compelled to endlessly strive. What they’re sometimes confused by is what they’re striving for in the first place. What they often question is why they can’t just enjoy relaxing “like a normal person.” What they want to know is who they are outside of what they accomplish.
A classic perfectionist writes the first sentence, hates it, tries her best to forget it ever existed, but is inevitably haunted by it for a minimum of eight years.
A Parisian perfectionist pretends not to notice she wrote a first sentence, affecting an air of, “Oh yeah, I guess I did. Huh.” Then she secretly, desperately hopes everyone loves it and, as a result, loves her. Who wrote that first sentence? I must be friends with her immediately!
It’s not mere talent that rises to the top, it’s persistence. While change does always involve loss, not changing involves a much deeper loss.
