Can life ever be perfect?

OkayWhatever

I'm basically just curious, I tend to think this a bit, still haven't come up with an answer.

Can everything be perfect all at once?

For me, I love the relationship i'm in, I would marry my boyfriend tomorrow if I had the chance,I started a new job recently and I love it but I HATE college. All the stress in my life is caused by college. I'm only doing 2 hours a week because i'm repeating but it's always in my mind.

I'd like to think that if college was going good then everything will be perfect, but when it was my last job was hell.

In your opinion, is a perfect life possible? Can everything go right all at once?

D1stant

It can. Its a question of managing expectations, and knowing that even perfection is temporary

Sunshineboo

I don't think there can ever be a happily ever situation, sure there can be lots of moments of happiness but life has ups and downs.
I know we were told in stories like Cinderella 'they all lived happy ever after' but its not realistic really, damn you Disney!:D

Ickle Magoo

I don't think it can - I think it's wholly unrealistic to expect that life will ever be "perfect" - good, sure; wonderful, certainly...but perfect - in every, single tiny little way - no chance.

There are just too many factors completely outwith our control to engineer the perfect life. Even when the vast majority of life is going the way we want there are still things we would change about it...and TBH, I'd imagine living the perfect life every day as being a bit boring...I enjoy the challenge of taking on what life throws at me and trying to make it work in my favour.

Dolbert

It's human nature to constantly be striving for something. If everything were perfect, we would get bored very quickly

Kiera

I think you can have a perfect day or week but not life. Something bad will happen along the way. And when you get over that bad thing and everything seems perfect again something else happens.

I think people who strive for the perfect life will never be happy. But those who live in the perfect now will get a lot more out of life. That's just my take on it anyway

saa

I believe when you get to the top of Maslows hierarchy of needs you can have a perfect life, you have everything you need and would want.. but then I feel that would never be enough and would never be what you expected even if your life wasn't majourly flawed.

Ickle Magoo

That's the trouble with self-actualization - each enlightenment just eluminates more possibilities.

Kiera

Ickle Magoo wrote: »

That's the trouble with self-actualization - each enlightenment just eluminates more possibilities.

Woah, what's with the big words?? :P

*brain explodes*

Ickle Magoo

Apologies, study of "A Theory of Human Motivation" suddenly came back to haunt me. :P

Lucyfur

For me it depends on your definition of perfect. I consider my life to be perfect but I'm aware others would think it was far from it. I have an amazing relationship with an even more amazing partner, but, we never go out - well, extremely rarely. It suits us perfectly, whereas for others, lack of social life would be a total nightmare. I have a wonderful son, who just happens to be autistic. Some might see it as a hindrance, a disability, something that might prevent him from having a ''normal'' life. I see him as an astonishing little human being with such fight and drive. He has baffled his medical team on numerous occasions. So, to my partner and I, he's perfect. I've recently returned to full time education, at the grand old age of 29. Some thought I was crazy to give up the ''perfect job'' I had...but I had to follow my heart, I did the right thing as I LOVE my course. I have very few real friends, but the couple I have I can trust with my life...some people would view me as a loner but I think I have perfect friends because we will always help each other - we're all busy with our own lives, but we can meet up after not seeing each other for a month, and slot right back into where we left off. I love that about my friends.

I could go on and on for hours. I suppose what I'm trying to say is my life is perfect because it's full of people I care about. I filtered out the sh1t years ago and it was the best thing I did. My perfect life is full of imperfections and I love it:D

Storminateacup

Life can only be perfect for a short time. It's not really perfect when it's "perfect" all the time -- surely then it stops being perfect and just becomes normal?

We always want more.. Our lives can seem pretty perfect to those on the outside but I don't think anyone ever truely happy settling for exactly what they have.

Novella

Nah, I don't think life can be perfect, not continuously. If it was, what would you do? There are always gonna be things you'll want and you'll think, "Oh, if I just had X or if I could do Y, everything would be perfect" but then you get X, you can do Y and suddenly you want Z.

There are probably moments of perfection, fleeting ones, and I think that's enough. 'Cause if it was always perfect, that'd be boring. There'd be nothing to strive for, and personally, I'd miss that.

confuseddotcom

Sometimes I'm easily-pleased, other times I'm nowhere-near-being-easily-pleased, have yet to come upon a time or moment where I thought absolutely everything was going well, or everything was exactly perfect, exactly how ya want it to be, how it should be, (Goddd this Ladies Lounge makes me fierce miserable and sad lol! ) but there's the odd moment here and there where ya feel warm inside (not necessarily romantic/boyfriend-y/loveydovey type of glow, just an all-round general feeling of warmth inside,) and you're surrounded by people, and where ya feel mostly everything is going well, and it's going pretty okay for itself. So I wouldn't seek absolute perfection if those moments were never far off and presented to me now and again.

Sauve

Perfection is very much different for each person.
For me, life right now is perfect. By that I mean my family are all getting on well, they're all happy, nobody is ill or suffering in any way, and things are ticking along.
Family being my priority in life, as long as they're all ok, then I can be at ease, sit back and say 'things are pretty frickin sweet right now'.

wonderfulname

As has been said it depends on your definition of perfect, I think life is pretty perfect for me right now as I'm fairly contented in myself and everyone around me seems much the same, if that makes sense, sure there's stresses coming from every angle, and I really don't know what tomorrow will bring but that's just part of life, it's been a lot worse so that's probably why I can appreciate how good I have it now.

Links234

I don't really think so.

but that's not a bad thing either. perfect is over-rated anyway. it's like how you can love that old, worn, beaten-up old teddy Bear better than a brand new "perfect" teddy. how your friends will point out all the ways your favourite movie is bad, but you still love it anyway even if it isn't that well thought of. how you could live in a small pokey little house that has all kinds of issues, but it still feels like home. in my experience, flawed is so much better than perfect.

my life is so very, very far from perfect. but I can't think of a time I was happier

Viper_JB

I find the a lot of the time it's the imperfections that make things unique, desirable and fun. I don't think life can ever be perfect, and I don't think I'd ever want it to be.

dammitjanet

I don't think life is ever perfect, you'll always have obsticles and hard times. It's just the nature of the world.
But perfect moments can happen, times when nothing else in the world matters and the problems seem to disapear

Da Shins Kelly

I've had moments when I felt like things were perfect - being at home with my parents for Christmas, stuffing our faces, watching movies and getting drunk, for example. I never feel happier than when I'm at home for Christmas. However, it's temporary, and it only lasts a couple of weeks before I have to go back to college and things get hectic again and I'm worried and rushing around like a headless chicken. Not so perfect then.

As has been said before, I think perfection is not really attainable on a long-term basis. There are moments of complete and utter happiness, but most days are tinged with something that upsets us, disappoints us, worries us, etc. But I do believe that everyone can have periods of perfection.

Giselle

I've had plenty of perfect moments in my imperfect life.:)

Life isn't smooth sailing, and it would be very boring if it was. Its the difficulties and trials that make us more developed people anyway.

To quote the great poet and artiste Ronan Keating (;)), life is a rollercoaster.

The uphill struggles make the downhill coasting sweeter, because you can't appreciate the good things fully if you have nothing to show them up in relief.:)