Perfection is a clever salesman that tries to sell you a perfect life rather than an excellent one.  The sales talk sounds compelling, and you soon buy in to what perfection is selling.  Why settle for good when you can go for the best?  Why not go all the way and go for perfection?

Young people search for the perfect mate.  Perfection gives them a long shopping list of all the qualities that must be present.  Perfection never bothers to mention the fact the perfect spouse doesn’t exist.  Perfection tells you to just keep looking.  He or she is out there somewhere.  Some people never get married because they won’t make a commitment until they find the perfect mate.

After you get married, perfection rears its ugly head and starts telling you all of the things wrong with your spouse.  The list of shortcomings is small at first, but it gets longer each day.  Perfection never tires in its relentless effort to destroy your happiness.  If you listen to the negative litany, it’s only a matter of time before perfection completes its dastardly plan and ruins your marriage. 

Perfection sells a perfect life and delivers a miserable one.  When perfection comes in the front door, the good things of life head for the emergency exit.

Excerpt from :

Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking : Good-by Depression - Hello Positive Mind

David J Abbott M.D.