Including Imperfection

If I ask a question - Can any thing be perfect, or say Ideal ?
Most certainly the answer will be NO

But we as a society are obsessed with perfection
we define perfect situations, people, emotions and even a perfect society

Deep in our hearts we all know that what we define, or plan for a perfect is bound to fail when applied to real situations. Even then we try to modify the actual scenario to fit the desired perfect. In doing so we forget that the perfect never has, is or will exist. There is a need to allow the imperfection in all aspects if we want to document, to preserve, our time. As history is not something written by the memory of the new generation about the past but it is the picture painted by the people for their own time.

Look at ourselves, the history that we read did not come form our memory but from the documentation of the present by the people of the concerned generation. Where ever the documentation is not available the history remains hidden.. unknown or even not true .. as one has no way to identify whether the interpreted is the true form or has imperfections embeded in it either deliberately or by mistake.

We, our generation, at least will never want to be lost.... no generation ever will, for that matter. In order to achieve that we will have to make our documents realistic and not impose our ideals on them.

The field of science and research seems to have realized it sooner than the rest of us. They have also devised a method for the documents to be realistic and still not loose their ideology. This I think is very important as a third person will find it too tough, and will be lost in the details if complete realistic picture is presented to him at once.

The beauty of the method has been felt by each one of us. May be we donot realize it but bear with me as i unviel the devil of the detail slowly enough to see it comming.

As a chield one is told that the matter is composed of solids - liquids and gases
Step 2 : They are composed of smallest particle atom
Step 3 : Atoms are composed of smallest particles P N E
Step 4 : P N E are made of even smaller particle they are the smallest
Step 5 : The smaller is to be found by you .. we don't know for sure

Had it been told to the child on day 1 that what complexity he was getting into he would have lost interest. Moreover the interested one might have lost track. The lie about the smallest particle prevents him and lets him learn the secrets of matter learned by the mankind over a centuries. But the point is by the end when the child finishes his lessons he has learnt the imperfection of the subject under consideration. And that is what lets the knowledge live and to get enhanced.

A similar treatment should be given to our regular documentation. It can moderate the burden of history writing and improve our daily life. For each one of us has suffered due to the poor form of documents that we maintain. They are poor because of the missing details and the true reasons being dropped out in the first place to keep them ideal.

We as a society and the people in the government should understand this and let loose our love for the ideal forms and leave some space for the actual. This friendly devil of the detail should be wrapped in, thus preventing the much hassles of the modern times. It will also result in minimizing the man hours lost in re-doing the same work.. avoiding accidents.. and so on and so further.

Let us accept formally that the works we do as humans are most of the times behind the perfection as defined by us. At the same time we must develop respect for the real and the real natural perfect. This idea not only applies to the documents and history making but to us in general, it is about accepting imperfections in all humans .. the document was mere deception, as the lie about the smallest atom of the child's step 2.