As a realist, I don’t believe in perfection. The pursuit for perfection is what leads us to be great but that’s all it is. A pursuit. We can never reach perfection, as the world is constantly changing and evolving. What was considered perfection 30 years ago is now considered dated and imperfect. Perfection is a human invention. Things are the way they are, but things can always be better. The idea of perfection comes from religion, that we are just imperfect copies of the divine ideal. However, once one realizes that there is no divine ideal, or even a divine, we can accept that we should work towards ‘perfection’ in order to benefit the human race, not to reach some god-given ideal.