Perfection

Perfection-This is  defined as the act of perfecting or a state of being perfect. So why is it that we try so hard to acheive it in everything we do?
Is it our fear of failure that pushes us to be perfect?
Or is it because we want everything to live up to our expectations and to do that it has to be perfect to the last detail or be the exact same as we imagined it?
But the real question is why do we try? After all we have all tried to be perfect and no matter how hard we try we never seem to acheive it, in fact we seem to end up more disappointed than we would've been if we hadn't wanted everything to be perfect. But in the end sometimes what we didn't expect sometimes turns out to be better than we could have imagined. I know because at Christmas everyone hopes that people just read their mind and surprise them with what they always wanted which they often don't. But when we expected those things we were disappointed to find something else making us disregard how great what we got is. But I'm not saying that we shouldn't expect things to happen only to make sure that we don't always think that things will happen the way we expect them to or to happen at all and to just take things as they come and appreciate them for what they are not for what they aren't.