Do You Need To Be 'JUMPING OFF THE PAGE'

 

WHO DOESN'T want performances that seem to be JUMPING OFF THE PAGE?  I for one, I would always relish those moments BUT just like in any competitive sports, even if you are recognized as the 'GOAT' [Greatest of all time] like NBA's Lebron James, every game your performance will absolutely NOT be JUMPING OFF THE PAGE.  I remember those days WHEN the company I was working with [that was SHELL for more than 12 years] was having its own professional basketball ballclub and in the mornings WHEN they had a scheduled game by evening time, the basketball players will strut in at our workplace to check their BIORYTHM😃😃😃

On the surface, PERFECTION sounds, well, PERFECT enough.  Indeed, a worthy aspiration.  BUT PERFECTION means being flawless, a pristine whiteness no less.  BUT for those [I was one of them before] WHO dealt with PERFECTIONISM, we now know firsthand that it's NOT all it's cracked up to be.  And far from making us our best own selves, PERFECTIONISM can indeed be a trap for us, our feeling of shame and guilt and low self-esteem, sometimes all rolled into one💚💛💜

Indeed it is very laudable if we embed within ourselves, to perform things with results that will be JUMPING OFF THE PAGE but more often, WHILE it's best from a motivational perspective, more often it's wishful thinking no less.  I fell into that trap numerous times before BUT I realized that it can cause us to limit our own choices and in the end, keep our lives small in order to avoid risking OR facing failure, whew💥💥💥

WHAT happens next?  far from making our life to near-PERFECTION, PERFECTIONISM can leave us feeling empty and lonely.  And in this age of the ever increasing influence of social media, it is obviously more tempting than ever to look at the perfectly filtered moments of other peoples' lives and to feel like your life is the only one that is anything less than PICTURE PERFECT [oh yesssss, I remember, even during that NOT so long ago Covid-19 Pandemic].  And WHEN we compare our lowest moments to everyone else's shiniest ones, our biggest flops to everyone else's top ten hits, our worst failures at everyone else's greatest achievements, we'll likely blame our own self❎❎❎

Our takeaway:  As nowadays, social media facilitates that instant internal comparison of our own selves at our worst to others at their absolute best, WHEN we buy into that idea that life should always look and feel "INSTAGRAMMABLE', we are then setting ourselves for one huge disappointment to another.  BUT again, PERFECTIONISM has been around us for the longest time, far longer than when Mark Zuckerberg first launched Meta's Facebook so it just makes sense that we need to look at things more closely as to WHY is it so tempting to compare ourselves to others and pursue perfection as if it were possible?  Just because someone's else BEST performance JUMPS OFF THE PAGE😡😡😡