Do you want to make everything complete? That’s a simple idea to each person. In fact, most of the time things that we take for granted don’t go as we wish.
Our life can’t be perfect. We hope to get excellent grades. We want to be top students. Every day, we try our best to listen to teachers carefully and follow their instructions. But we often don’t feel satisfied. We face new problems every day.
A patient eagerly expects to be healthy again, but a healthy man doesn’t care about that. A poor man will be very happy when he buys something cheap; a rich man can’t understand this.
Then, can things around us be perfect? No. For example, when you stare into the bright moon hanging in the deep sky, you may feel, how beautiful it is! The truth is that, the beauty of the moon is presented not only through its brightness. More importantly, it is incompleteness that inspires us imagination and deep thought. Assuming that our unlimited imagination and deep thoughts are seeds, we can say the moon’s incompleteness is the fertile soil that makes the seeds sprout and grow. Poor Sushi had sung in his famous poem:
In other words, if the moon did not wax and wane, we would find that it is not only complete but also ugly.
It is just the fragmentary part that makes things perfect. A man without any failures, in some sense, is a poor man. He can’t know the joys of hopefulness and the pains of struggle. When you read of Hamlet, who finally perished together with the venomous king, didn’t you sigh? When you found Chaste Tess’s ending could only be death, weren’t you shocked with grief? What moved you so greatly? It is the unperfected part.
Here is another story: Once, there is an incomplete circle, which rolled here and there to look for its missing part. Because the circle was not complete, it rolled very slowly. So it had enough time to talk with worms and enjoy the warm sunshine. Finally, its dream came true. However, as a completed circle, it rolls so fast that it can no longer talk with worms or have a rest in the lovely grass. When the circle realized it, it threw away the missing part that it had just found.
A wise man knows he ought to give up something at the right time. The person who gives up the dream he can’t realize is perfect; the person who values his experience of failure is perfect. Say no to perfection. The world doesn’t have to be perfect.