In 2025 let’s let go of ‘perfection’

Perfection. We pretend to love it, but we despise it.

It’s the most miserable state: inhuman, unforgiving, untouchable. There is only one way for it to go from that point. How can something perfect become more perfect than perfect? It cannot. But it can become imperfect.

The perfect human body, the perfect night’s sleep, the purest diet: living not for life, but living for perfection.

And it will, make no mistake. And so we teeter at that terrifying point where we wait in anticipation of the fall, knowing that sooner or later the perfection that we hate — but pretend to love — will die.

Table talk

But oh, thank God for that moment. That first scratch on the table. That

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