In Search of Perfection
I want --
Perfect parents, perfect partner, perfect education, perfect job, perfect health - the search of finding everything "perfect" continues all our life. In my constant drive to attain that "perfect big thing", i miss the pleasures small things life offers. Strving for Perfection can turn out to be disastrous for a relationship. "Perfection" is relative. It all about setting standards and expecting all the people around you , all the things that happen to you meet those standards. What might be a perfect weekend for me might not be for my partner.
Perfectionsists lose their sleep worrying about the mistakes committed in some past projects, dates of travel, uncertainty of the future. Too many "what if's" occupy their mind all the time. "What if this happened, what if that happened, what would i do". This is nothing but an attempt to control and master the environment around us which is impossible. Planning is one thing but ensuring everything happens according to the plan is another.
Brought up to be a good child, a perfect child who is quiet, obedient all the time. Am learning to let go of inhibitions and act ad hoc. Sometime things done without planning can bring a lot of joy which a perfect plan might not. So much of time and energy is spent on achieving that perfection, that there is none left to enjoy it ultimately.
The earlier the realisation dawns up on me, the better it is. Someone said it well: Be human: make a mistake! Mistakes are opportunities in disguise.
So make a mistake :)

Damp Weekend - Weekend spoilt all our plans of going to Boston. So another weekend spent within 4 walls, in front of a TV munching junk food. Got so suffocated by evening that we went for a long walk in the cold weather. Our TV, no doubt needs a rest badly.
Lesson : Don't plan for weekends for weather in the East coast doesn't seem to cooperate.