00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:18,270 think the actual definition should be a 10-letter word describing something that doesn't exist or

prison

Maybe straightjacket. See perfection is a virus a

Tumor a growth it infects the mind of who it attaches itself to

Until it eventually

Destroys the host. I hate the very word perfection. It has driven me crazy for years guided by fear

I was constantly comparing myself to my peers stressing and striving to reach some idea that only existed in

Here. Oh

You thought perfection was real

Well, I disagree. I mean, have you ever seen a perfect tree in real life?

Have you ever gone into a forest and seen a perfect tree now?

See they all got a little something going on some lean this way some lean that way

Some have a little too much loss and some got a whole bunch of bark that's been ripped off but somehow

They're all beautiful, but

When it comes to people we don't seem to see that we are all beautiful in

all of our expressions

so we dissect ourselves into pieces judging each other thinking perfection is something we can achieve which leads us to feeling depleted and

Defeated but Salvador Dali's said it best

have no fear of perfection because

You never reach it

Ladies and gentlemen, there are two doors in life door

Number one be perfect and be admired or door number two. Be real

and beloved I

Say choose door number two and choose it quick because life's too short to try to live up to something that doesn't even exist

It makes no sense. So, please create your own unique and expression color outside

the lines be the pretzel that refuses to not be the marble that doesn't quite roll right do the dance that

Nobody's ever seen before and don't worry if people stop and stare. I mean if the Leaning Tower of Pisa was straight

Nobody would care

See what mistakes are made beauty is birthed. You know why they call it the Model T?

Because that's how many letters it took for Henry Ford to get that darn car to work

So don't worry about always being first and getting it right. I mean Sony's very first product they ever made

It cooked rice

so embrace your mistakes they are to be savored failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor and true success is being

Yourself in a world that's constantly trying to make you someone else

You know, I was reading the other day about a Japanese tradition called kinsugi

What they do is if an object breaks

They feel the cracks were pure gold because they believe that when something suffers damage and has a history

It is all the more beautiful

So I say love your cracks. You may call it brokenness

but it is the way your light will shine through and

If you have no one in your corner

then consider me your supporter and we will smile together as society tries to diagnose our gifts as

disorders

You don't need to be a perfect person with perfect makeup perfect skills or a perfect build

because the truth is real people aren't perfect and

Perfect. People are

real