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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
I'm afraid I'd have to argue that no human being is really in a position to know because (as far as I know) no human being has ever been there.
Besides, if perfection is so boring, why is it that practically everybody is trying to better themselves in some way?
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I'm feeling arrogant enough this morning to answer this
. What is this perfection that people are striving for? How do you define it? Anorexics see themselves as needing to lose weight, but the rest of the world sees them as medically ill and wraith-like. Cosmetic surgery is so popular because people just want something different. In the cases that I've seen, if you think that the person was made 'more perfect,' well, then, I guess everyone has opinions. Isn't perfection situational? My wife may be the perfect fit for me but not for any other, and so she's then imperfect but perfect, I guess.
We are creatures adapted to recognize change. It's a survival trait, as you definitely want to know when to run. We say that all that we'd like to do is sit by a river and fish for the rest of our lives, but after a few days or weeks, the sameness would have us finding either some problem or job that just
has to be fixed/done. We squirm in perfect cages.
Like Tolkien's humans, we're travellers, never happy with the status quo.