Striving for Perfection

Striving for Perfection

Most individual's inner feelings create an ambition to strive for perfection. An individual needs to be mentally or physically ready to attempt to be perfect because perfection is a hard task to complete. No one person is perfect, perfection is limited to the beliefs of an individual of what perfect is for a situation. During the Greek and Roman periods, individuals also sought for perfection.

Perfection is the quality or state of being saintly or an exemplification of supreme excellence ("Perfection", 2013). Perfection is what most individuals desire to have in their lives whether it is through their lives in general, family or friends relations, career, or even schooling. The feeling of accomplishment is the end state that individuals strive to achieve when trying to reach the goal of perfection. No one individual can possess a harmony of complete perfection in all aspects of his or her lives. People make mistakes and have faults, achieving perfection in one area is achievable. Perfection is also described as being flawlessness ("Perfection", 2013). Perfection can be an individual's worst enemy because so much time is being spent to be perfect that their lives have been over consumed with stress and nothing but reaching the goals they have set. No perfectionist is flawless no matter what goals and obstacles he or she have achieved. Somer (2002-2007), "If you look close enough at all of the great names in recorded history you will see that besides their crowning achievements they also carried with them the faults and mistakes of the average person" (para. 2). For example, John Lennon beat his first wife and Martin Luther King Jr. had extramarital affairs (Somer, 2002-2007). Religion provides examples that perfection in not all flawlessness. Somer (2002-2007), "Buddha means 'perfect one', and when he supposedly achieved 'enlightenment' he no longer had imperfections" (para. 3). If Buddha is considered to have no longer any imperfections, the Buddha must at one point have imperfections. Striving for perfection is the best he or she can accomplish.

In Ancient Greek and Roman eras, striving for perfection is illustrated in the events of world development and in cultural achievements. Buildings and art are areas that the Greeks and Romans strove for perfection. Greek and Roman showed the human form at the strongest, vigorous, and athletic. Cartwright (2013), "Greek sculptors were particularly concerned with proportion, poise, and the idealized perfection of the human body, and their figures in stone and bronze have become some of the most recognizable pieces of art ever produced by any civilization" (para. 1). According to "Ancient Greece" (2003-2012), "Greek sculptures are very important as the vast majority of them tell us a story about Gods, Heroes, Events, Mythical Creatures and Greek culture in general" (para. 1). Statues often represented Gods, because Gods were perfection in the eyes of Greek and Roman cultures. Greek and Roman buildings were built for perfection to worship Gods and symbols of their cultures. The Greeks and Romans used the symmetries of the human body to