true); $adCfg=array('adTest'=>true); $pgDbg=array('active'=>false); // No need to touch anything after this line. $pgCfg['file'] = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; $pgCfg['path'] = substr(dirname(__FILE__), strlen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'])); $pgDbg['ipath'] = '/stories'; $cfg=array("pgCfg"=>$pgCfg, "pgDbg"=>$pgDbg,'adCfg'=>$adCfg); require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/zMvUsApplication/MvUsStaticInsertManager.php'); $WkInsertMgr=new MvUsStaticInsertManager($cfg); $WkInsertMgr->setThePath(substr(dirname(__FILE__), strlen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']))); $WkInsertMgr->setTheFile(basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])); $WkInsertMgr->myInitClass(); $MvUsPageWk = $WkInsertMgr->getMvUsWorker(); ?> Imperfection is what makes a person so perfect

PERFECTIONISM

February 19, 2001

I wrote this to express appreciation to my friends who have showered me with love and helped me realize that imperfection is what makes a person so perfect.

No one could elaborate on it more than me. Maybe by default of my horoscope, I was born a perfectionist and tend to seek perfection in anything and everything I desire.

I remember tearing up a painting that took me many hours to draw just because it lacked the 'X' factor. I remember dumping my entire meal because I did not like the service. I took great pain to get the best of almost all the things I possess.

It was that or nothing.

In the pursuit of perfection, I tend to overlook the finer things.

It took me a very long time and a couple of painful lessons to understand that... that perfection is not about having the perfect shave, or the perfect work, or even a perfect family. It is about accepting the imperfection; to peer beyond the shell of the individual and realize the pearl that lies deep within, to embrace imperfection as a part of us, to accept the scars as marks of lessons and not stains to bleach off; THAT is what makes us complete. That is what makes us truly perfect.

I still tidy up my table when I leave office. I still scout for the best gadgets. I still clean the microscopic stain off my Sony 17inch Trinitron monitor, but something has changed now. I have learned to accept the beauty of imperfection... and I learned to accept myself.

--- Copyright © 2001 Senthil Hari