The author’s argument is that people try to strive for “perfection” but this brings pain and unhappiness in a person’s life. The argument is true because that is how people are today because they want to impress other people by being “perfect”.
The main crowd that tries to be perfect is the teenagers in college or high school. These kids are trying to fit in with the crowds of high school or college but in reality they are just wasting their time. They are trying to become perfect in every little thing in life which is hard to do because that means impressing everybody the person comes across. The teenagers do not realize that this brings more emotional and mental stress to them by attempting to become perfect.
The author says for the people who are striving for this perfection should just drop that backpack of bricks and become your own person. When the person does this they will realize that life becomes way easier and way more enjoyable. This is when they discover in life what will make them truly happy and not just trying to satisfy that person in their life. That is because the person isn’t worrying about having to impress but they are accomplishing things that matter inside and make them happy.
If people think about it they are unique because they have one thing that no one else has and that’s their fingerprints. Now thinking about this why would you want to become perfect for someone else when you were made to be unique and different from anyone else? That’s why it is a lot more hard work to be perfect than to just be yourself in life.
The author makes another great point that this crave to become perfect could be caused by the parents. When children are growing up the parents make a lot of decisions for them. Some of these decisions that the parents make aren’t what the child really wants. By doing this they are implanting into the kids head that if they do not do what will make their parents happy then life won’t be good. Which when the kids are growing up to teenagers they remember this and try to be perfect to impress all of the people in their life, like the parents.
To fix this problem parents could probably ask the child what they want to do or let them pick out things. This would put the image in the heads of kids that life is great if they just be themselves and not try to be perfect ruining their life with stress for this goal.
In the world today life is always changing and to keep up with being perfect the person would have to follow every time the rules change. Trying to be that perfect person in this world is more like the person is just telling a lie after a lie. Even though the world is a very judgmental place it is just a lot easier to be a unique individual than being someone who tries to impress everyone in the world.
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