The Blueprint for Perfection is based on a boatload of faulty assumptions, the most toxic one being that “perfection” is a good thing.
It’s not.
Perfection is, quite literally, a dead end.
When we stop changing, stop evolving, we die.
Time is a gift, because without it, change would be impossible. Each minute, hour, day, brings change. Forces change. Requires change.
This makes the Blueprint for Perfection not only unattainable, but a terrible distraction. As we update the Blueprint to cope with change, keeping its accomplishment forever out of our reach, we can’t focus on now, on this twenty-four hours that is our most precious, irreplaceable gift.
People are a gift, animals, life around us. Everything that changes, changes us. If we’re striving after yesterday’s Blueprint for Perfection, we must necessarily resist today’s change.
Resisting change, rather than change itself, is the source of pain. When I learned that, it made recovery possible.