by Steve Marshall

Created on: November 17, 2007

To me the concept of perfection can raise more questions than it answers. And the idea that we have a choice to follow perfection or not? Well, I suppose if we have freedom of choice we would have this freedom of choosing perfection or not too, I guess. So here are some of the questions this raises for me.

Is perfection a choice or a design of the universe? Is perfection always the right choice or can it be the wrong choice sometimes? Do we really have a choice whether we act with perfection or strive for perfection or not? Are we perfect? Can we be perfect and make a perfect choice or maybe we can never be perfect and can just ever only make the best choice? Can we make the worst choice sometimes and find out later that it is still the right choice or perfect choice for us at the time? Is perfection something we choose or does it choose us?

Is everything perfect anyway, in that everything is happening perfectly as it should be according to all the Laws and rules of the Universe. And if it wasn't perfect would it mean one of the laws or rules can be broken or maybe that sometimes it doesn't work properly or perfectly? Are the laws always operating perfectly or not?

If the whole world works perfectly, does that imply that its parts are also all working perfectly too or can some parts choose not to work perfectly or maybe they are not working perfectly at the present moment for some other reason? If this is so how does overall perfection allow for this? Does another part compensate and rebalance or restore or recreate overall perfection in the whole. So that overall perfection is always retained in the whole picture and at a macro level.

My Dad tells an interesting tale about his father, my Grandpa when they were building a fence together, many years ago, when he was a boy of twelve years of age.

They were digging holes in which to place the large wooden redgum posts for the fence and they were placing them 4 feet apart. My Grandpa had allowed my father to measure the distances with the tape measure. He asked my Dad, "Are all the posts exactly 4 feet apart?" My Dad replied, "I think so, or they are near enough to it I think, Dad". My Grandpa then said to him, "Well, near enough is not good enough, I want them all exactly perfectly spaced and exactly 4 feet apart. Measure them all again, there's a good son", he had said to my Dad.

My Dad this next time was very very careful and re-measured them all painstakingly again and it took him an hour or two with his tape measure

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