PERFECTION

“This is perfect,” she said on seeing the wristwatch I have gifted on her 21^st birthday. I said well that’s not quite something but she was hyped up to happiness in her extremities. It’s her way to take everything on the verge which lies on zenith. Simple emotion conveyed in a pious sense. She always has her way of smiling childishly. Her smile tells me that she would do anything to attain the happiness she has got and force me to believe that this has happened the very first time. Although I am aware of her beautiful expression of her thoughts and tend to be beaming in just a glimpse of it. The watch was nothing special as a gift that could erupt such an explosion of happiness. I have seen people gifting beautiful artwork, expensive dresses, and sometimes creating something with their own hands. But someone calling a gift perfect which has been bought and delivered through an e-commerce store might sound artificial. Well, to be more precise it might sound artificial in the absence of actual visual and audio. Her smile authored the title perfect on the watch as its been perfect since it was made. On seeing the watch and calling it perfect, she established a pure expression of happiness and satisfaction which added weight to the word and provided credibility to it. When I exclaim the word perfect, it isn’t satisfying to anybody including me. The word might make a good review of the situation but do not deliver justice for the word itself. Perfect needs something to be out of the world, which would excite us and catch our nerves. Her childish smile made me have a view of what perfect means.

For sake of understanding let us look to the phrase “Nothing is perfect”. It has gained so much fame that it would take sheer logic to make you all think in the other way. The main reason behind this phrase gaining fame and the word ‘perfect’ losing its essence is the generalization of the word.  Perfect has been extensively used in this trodden world by the people inhabiting who are bent under various conventions and pursuits they wish to carry out or are carrying out. Their eyes sparkle with the mere glimpse of goodness and positivity and they end up labeling them perfect. The degradation of the word resulted in facilitating the escape of its essence. Perfection now stood by the word “Ideal” and cast its effect on it. People then generalized “ideal” with “perfect” and it was about time that the words were used interchangeably. I have objections to befriending idealism with perfection. The thing which stings my eyes is the generalization of the word which has become much frequent that the meaning of “Ideal” and “Perfect” has started to feel the same. But that does not mean that “perfection” has any chance to stand with “ideal” because they just don’t belong to the same league. Words should speak for themselves and their meaning should stand in the ocean of words. I am sure that Perfect and perfection have the capability of safeguarding their existence.

 

The easy way to establish a fact about certain terminology is to first define it. It would help us examine its meaning in true senses. Perfection is considered an extra celestial thing that is out of our reach and to coverup for that we have made its connection to other words to justify its meaning in our world. The worst phase for the word started when people connected the word with its antonym and made them equivalent to each other. By doing this they not only derogated the meaning of “perfect” and its antonym “imperfect” but also the word “antonym” because “Antonym” was the term used to draw out complete antagonism in two words. If I cite an example for this, the phrase “imperfect is perfect” would completely satisfy my cause. In this phrase, imperfect is termed as perfect but why have we united both the words which antagonize each other.  I am aware of things that are conveyed by this phrase but aren’t there are other ways of saying it? Does that not degrade the word “perfect” as its antagonist is succeeding in its place? It's same as a story, which has only a villain who is considered as a hero by the audiences because the emotion and character played by the hero are unachievable by the audiences and they end up considering the hero as false illusion and invest their faith in the villain and make him a hero.

The scarcity of the actual feeling of “perfection” has made us consider that perfection doesn’t exist but that’s not the reality of words. Words are created to define something for the objective of perceiving by human minds. We should acknowledge that the world has so much good to offer and if we open up our hearts and search for perfection, we would surely find it. When we would find perfection, we will utter the word and that day we will realize that that’s real and the hero and the villain stand differently in every story. Spotting perfection in the world around us isn’t so much of a tough job. We are always around perfection; we just need to realize what’s perfect. We don’t need to use the word as euphoria but connect it with real emotions.

The watch which made her happy was not the emotions evoked out of materialism because the watch hasn’t had to offer much, but the bond which it depicted filled her heart with magnificent joy. The girl is always inviolable and she shows me with her light the meaning of perfection, she tells me with her eyes that perfect is real. She forces me to think that the heart of the father pounding with motherhood when he holds his child for the first time is perfect, the soldier in grief in the far of no man's land remembering his love is perfect, the smile of a newborn which isn’t laden with any worldly colors but which is pure as heaven is perfect. The golden soil which feeds us and the joy and life it gives to the reapers is perfect, the thing inside every one of us which is separating us with the inanimate is perfect. The feeling of life filling up our lungs with energy is perfect. Perfect is real and to seek perfection we must first acknowledge that it is already in existence.