Waiting for Perfection
Comments (0) “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
—Dale Carnegie
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve strived for perfection in many ways, most of them the wrong ones. I actually pulled a “D” in junior high shop class—a disaster for an otherwise straight A student.
We were building step stools. I built mine well, but I got caught up in trying to put a finish on it. I worked on it as I would a piece of fine furniture, trying to give it a mirror-like surface. As a result, I never completed the project, and earned the lowest grade short of complete failure. About a month after receiving that grade, I suddenly realized the awful truth: had I achieved the finish I desired, it would be completely destroyed the very first time someone used the stool for its intended purpose!
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