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People talk about perfectionism like it's a unique character trait. I'm sorry to break this to you, you're not special. You're surrounded by perfectionists.
You grew up in a culture where even your parents' parents were perfectionists and then they passed that down to your parents who then passed it down to you because they subconsciously understand that you live in a capitalistic society that values achievement and so they gave you the most attention and encouragement and love that you equated to being alive when you did things extra well. Gave you the applause and then you learned, "Hey, I'm kind of feeling invisible by comparison to this approval and love when I'm not being perfect, so I guess that means that I got to get everything dialed into a T just to feel like me."
But you don't. But you think that you do and it feels like you're tying yourself in knots and you got to get everything right and you're second-guessing and you're indecisive and you got to hide everything until everything's perfect and then you can reveal it from the state, but that's not true. It feels true. But it's not true.
You'll never be perfect and you'll always be worthy of love. You'll never be perfect. You'll never be perfect. You'll never do anything perfectly. If you do, it's a fluke and it wasn't you anyway. Ooh, that one stings.
You'll never be perfect and you'll always be worthy of love. If you can remember that, then you won't need to be perfect and you can start living.