"Perfection is in Perception"

Greetings Earthlings. January is finally coming to an end...YAY! Sorry to be a downer but I kind of hate January. It's cold, for what seems like no reason, and the Salt Lake Valley is depressed with an overwhelming film of SMOG. Bleh. Gross. Usually, I like to keep an open mind about situations so I don't make it worse on myself or anyone else for that matter but now that it's over, I can officially rant about it. But hey! On a better note, it's national Chocolate Cake day. Best day ever, if you ask me. Hehe.

Anyway, I'm just going to get straight to the point. Last week I was sitting in my Visual Merchandising class when the topic of personal preference was brought up. Instantly my ears perked up. In class, we were relating this concept to how we can best market items and who our target customers are. While in discussion, my mind began to wonder on the sole principle: Personal preference. Hmmmmm. It seems so obvious. We either like something or we don't. Well yeah! Whether it be food, clothes, friends, lovers, blah blah blah.... you get it. We all have different taste. But for me, I've never related that to "perfection". My professor, who I think holds great advise and gets my mind really thinking, simply stated, "Perfection is in Perception". That's when it hit me like a train... YES. How simple, yet true a statement! We are all in this world seeking perfection but it's all really just a matter of personal opinion. For me, I have always been on the quest for the perfect body. I go to the gym like your grade A tool, eat right and sleep as much as possible but I wasn't achieving what I thought was perfect. My ultimate goal was to be tall and skinny... like "Brandy Melville model" tall and skinny. Well, genetically, that's impossible for me. Haha for real. I'm 5'4 and I have an athletic build... my chances aren't looking good but that's merely my perception of the perfect body. To others, having muscle is perfection, being curvy is perfection or whatever. This is just an example. This could really be thrown in to any situation but my point is: Is perfection even real? I'm going to have to say NO. With varying opinions and conflicts of interest, there is not one, singular goal of perfection. That may sound cumbersome seeing that we are always trying to be better but I see it as something truly amazing! Personal opinions and preferences bring so much diversity and individually to the world. How sad a life without such color and creativity. I'm forever grateful to live in a time where being different and accepting "the oddly beautiful" is in fashion (so-to-speak). 

I hope my simple realization today impacted you as much it did me and some chocolate cake is sounding real nice right about now. Nom Nom Nom! 

Happy Tuesday!

-sam