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Perfection, What If?

Prompt: "If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow."
Beyoncé
Do you agree with this statement?

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If everything were to be perfect, we wouldn’t have fiction or poetry, as those things and almost all of the arts depend on conflict and imperfection. Never mind our smugness itself, the absence of the arts alone would give life a bland taste and outlook. Following along the same type of reasoning, can we call a bland life perfect?

Which makes me think about perfection. Just what is perfect? According to Wiki, ( God knows from where they got their definition) “Perfection is a state, variously, of completeness, flawlessness, or supreme excellence.”

This means where there is perfection, there is no room for change or improvement. That would be so boring, and the fact that it would be boring would make it imperfect. A catch-22 situation, isn’t it?

I think it is a better idea to accept that we live in a world that is perfect in its imperfections because it changes, improves, or deteriorates, and this makes us work with those imperfections to produce our fiction, poetry, and all arts, even when we complain of the difficulties those imperfection throw our way.