Is the relentless pursuit of perfection a great burden?

Question:Some people run a race and long only for it to be over. Others keep running even after they reach the end. What is a burden to one is often a pleasure to another.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Some people run a race and long only for it to be over. Others keep running even after they reach the end. What is a burden to one is often a pleasure to another.

I think it might be a burden yes, but a great one... well it depends I think on the person in question. However I think if you want everything to be perfect, everything tends to go wrong (in that persons eyes anyways). Nobody and nothing is perfect, so it would be an utter waste of time to pursuit it. Why not be happy with a little less perfection?

For some no doubt, others may have started closer to the finish line. A mild interest sounds healthier.

peace and love

its easy to get the persuit of perfectuion mixed up with other people's stuff, the hardest part is to stay true to yourself whilst attaining it!

**** Perfection

Its hard to pursue something that is not a single standard. my opinion is that since things often revolve in a cycle, the only perfection is behind the fact that they still go round, still go forward despite life's circumstances. It actually is such a burden, but when we work for some kind of perfection it gives a goal and purpose in life.

It's futile and subjective.

Absolutely! I think a better and more realistic way of thinking is to accept and love yourself for who you are right now, then work toward making yourself a better person with realistic goals in mind.
Perfection is only an ideal. No one could ever be completely perfect. Working to make yourself a better person means: Taking responsibility for your thoughts, words and deeds; not shirking from making mistakes, but learning from mistakes; understanding that only you can set goals of happiness for yourself and then achieve them; understanding your limitations, but always working towards more education and empathy.
If you have problems making friends, make yourself more friendly. If you have problems finding a love, make yourself more lovable. If you have physical limitations, improve your mind. If you are unhappy in whatever situation you find yourself, learn to see the positive in everything.

Yes, because we are flawed beings. I think that perfection, in all honesty, would make us uncomfortable. It would cast us as the ugly step-sister besides Cinderella.
Perfection can't be achieved by creatures that loss thousands of skin cells a day. Every seven years they say we have lost and regrown every cell in our body. We cannot sustain our form.
Even our spiritual battles are something that we fight on an ongoing basis. We don't win anything once and for all.
I don't think perfection can be found outside of the infinite and as I am finite I can't even truly conceive of actual perfection.
My thoughts.

Perfection is a myth.
perfection is simply a word created to explain an abstract concept and does not exist.
The pursuit of it therefore is useless and an extremely large burden.
My personal belief is that finding happiness with your own flaws and those in others is the closest we can come to perfection.
I do not mean to say we should not try to improve,
simply that we should strive to be better while understanding that we will never be exactly as we want to be and neither will anyone else.