Impossible perfection

A lot of people spend time wishing they were better, perfect in fact. You only need to look at a magazine stand in your local newsagent, have the perfect wedding/relationship/sex life/muscles, whatever.

Perfection is impossible, as the world always changes, if a perfect being existed, then that being would need to spend an enormous amount of time changing to keep up with the world. How long could anyone be expected to keep that rate of change up for without cracking up? Would you ever really be happy, never being allowed to be yourself, always at the mercy of those who are telling you what perfect is?

Should we even worry about "perfection"? In my view no. What's more important is being happy with who you are, personal development should stem from that, in the directions that you feel are important. If you keep trying to do what everyone else dictates is perfect, you start to lose control of your own future, and will always be running to keep up.