Monday, April 27, 2009

Perfectionism

Every person has peculiar characteristics depending upon the way and the environment in which he/she is brought up. However, there are some qualities which disturb you when you get into the world where these do not have even negligible significance.

I have seen many people around me who have a very strange feeling or thought process. They feel that, they should just finish speedily, whatever are the (unknowingly) predefined tasks on their names and then relax.
This is not really objectionable or bad always..but not very good or ideal either, because while finishing things hastily, you might not really do the things at their best, for that matter even good/better.

For example, there is a friend of mine, she used to feel that her mom takes lot of time finishing household chores. One day, she(friend) herself had to cook, she could finish it early and told her mom. However, her mom then made her realize that she has just prepared the lunch and did not keep everything at place, did not throw away the garbage stacked during the preparation, did not clean the platform once done.

According to me, only doing things hurriedly (as if you want to show that how fast you can finish and how much time you have saved) does not really make perfect sense..sometimes maybe. Additionally, such people do not really understand, that although they think that they have finished their job, it has generated lot of work for others.

I feel that if you take up something, you should complete it by all means. Some people call it perfectionism. It may be to some extent. But sometimes, it is not really perfectionism, it is just doing something good in its entirety. If someone asks me to cook, I would do it with all my heart (though sometimes the end product is not so good ;-) ), irrespective of the time it takes, because I don't really want to show how fast I am or just do it for the sake of doing it, rather I would like to show how good I am. I strongly feel that, everyone should possess this quality up to some extent. Of course this is my opinion and some people just feel that this is a waste of time.. but I don't really get satisfaction unless I do it properly. This does not really mean that because I have lot of time, I do it that way, but it is just that I feel that has equal importance.

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