I m perfectionist

I am not the one who gets too much into nooks and corners and unfortunately misinterpreted a particular gentleman's claim. The claim read "I m perfectionist". I for my sheer careless nature ignored the spaces in between and read as "Imperfectionist".

I for one reason or the other could never understand what to believe; the quote "No one is perfect" I had long back studied in Std. III or the claims of being Perfectionist made by New generation oldies. But one thing has always been sure, that I would never sacrifice my chillax moments for increasing my productivity by 0.0001%

It has always satisfied me when i have given my 100% possible at that stage, whatever the result be. This category of people has made life quite complex for others. A very popular Bollywood star would focus too much on quality roles than on quantity but would always end up taking roles quite out of time or out of place for him. Be it playing the role of a 20 year college goer when he is 45+ or playing a patriot's role 10 years after the death of such genre of movies.

I can be dead sure that such gimmicks are more of driving attention and serves 2 advantages

1) Increase your popularity (Even if it could be as silly as getting a haircut or something unshaven). For that matter I nearly change my clothes daily, but not even my neighbours and wingies talk about it

2) Distract the attention of the entire public to issues of trivial importance and eclipse your loopholes and things of greater importance. (I wish I could also discuss in my placement interview about how I took bath with warm water than discussing my grades and achievements or rather non achievements)

The fall of Wall

In Cricket, one had to score runs or win/save matches as the situation may be. Just highlighting knowledge of having 100 defensive shots for 1 particular deadly delivery was never enough. The real skills were tested and all the talks of perfection was yet again proven to be farce.

An unwritten claim was made by a batsman of being technically perfect.

I have seen the same batsman get out to a particular sort of delivery every now and then for the last 4 years

The talks of perfectionism is not limited to personalities. Even institutions and organizations are falling into the trap.

There was this B School which always tried to hog limelight in media. Some of the reasons for making in the city edition of Times of India city edition

1. Burning 100 candles (Nearly 10,000 times do this in the Mumbai suburbs never to get a mention even in the local newspapers)

2. Dancing in a group in a shopping mall (a National Television news channel broadcasted this, while umpteen marriage/other functions & dance performances go unnoticed)

3. A debate topic on which is better 'Munni' or 'Sheila'

I have a gut feeling that if I had written this blog some 6 months later I would have given a few more examples of this wannabe Media hyped, attention seeking, publicity frenzied trend like

..4. 20 different soaps used by 800 different students

..5. Students having lunch other than the alloted 1 hour of lunch

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actually the list is unending

People have in past and in future would continue to attack that part of human mind which is quite vulnerable to the changing dynamics of external environment.

Our job must be just to ignore, move on and enjoy every small bits & pieces of life.

because "No one is perfect".