We know more about life than anyone ever did. We control life processes more completely. In the future, almost total understanding will be achieved. Application, especially of medical care, becomes unsustainably convoluted – but that is a different topic. “Perfect health” seems within sight.
There are several problems with “perfection.”
Sometimes, thinking about how hard it is to achieve perfection is enough to prevent any attempt at improvement. We know we will never be able to adhere to a “perfect” diet, lifestyle, or exercise regimen, so we say “the hell with it” and sit on the couch.
Then there are those who do follow the perfect path. Inevitably entropy takes its toll, the tarnished methods seem no longer glorious, and – well – maybe not the couch, but a definite let down and degradation of effort.
The most corrosive aspect of a perfect goal is that the goal may be wrong. I may seek a perfectly shaped body to find friendship or love. If those additional side benefits fail to materialize, the whole nonsense seems a complete waste of time.
The message is simply not to be trapped into perfection – especially not narrow perfection. The universe is wide, contradictory, cruel, enchanted and completely imperfect.
Except, of course, in its own existence and our consciousness.
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