{"id":51,"date":"2016-11-28T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/?p=51"},"modified":"2016-12-07T12:10:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T12:10:53","slug":"does-perfection-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/2016\/11\/28\/does-perfection-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Perfection Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perfection. One word with an infinite amount of meanings. Where do I begin? Well I can start by saying DO NOT Google it because all you’ll find is pathetic definitions with words like ‘flawless’ and ‘excellence’ attached to it. I don’t know about you, but in my opinion I believe that perfection doesn’t exist, and has never existed.\u00a0Think about it, can you ever truly see yourself as perfect, or have you ever seen your reflection in a mirror and thought to yourself, “yep, that’s me… perfect”? We can think that about other people, either our friends, family or celebrities that we often see on social media, but let’s be honest, we can never actually say it about ourselves. And that isn’t because we don’t want to be cocky or vein, it’s because we always want just one more thing in our lives to be perfect. Whether that’s something small like wanting the newest Michael Kors handbag to complete an outfit, or something big like wanting your lips done because you think they are too thin (hint hint… Kylie Jenner<\/a>), but either way it’s impossible for us to actually classify our lives and ourselves as ‘perfect’.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Michael Jackson or Chris Hemsworth – Which one would you chose?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Have you ever had a conversation with your best friend discussing who your ultimate celebrity crush is and they have\u00a0responded, “Ew no, their nose is too big” or “they aren’t tall enough”. What you think or feel is perfection can be\u00a0<\/span>somebody else’s idea of imperfection. It all comes down to your own personal opinion or preference. I mean, I remember when my sister told me she thought Michael Jackson was good looking?! I know what you are thinking because I thought it too… was it along the lines of, ‘oh dear god please no’? Because mine was. But when I told her that I loved Chris Hemsworth in Thor<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0well let’s just say that she found my answer just as hysterical as I found hers. And I can tell you now that neither of our crushes are on Heart Radios list of top sexiest men<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Social media is this enormous platform which everyone goes to to either rant, share what they are doing, or to stalk our favourite celebs. (Don’t deny it, we all do it!) It can be their lifestyles we think are perfect or their incredible figures or fashion, but we all look at someone on Instagram or Twitter and think think “damn Daniel…” No i’m only kidding, but you do see that person as somewhat perfect, and somewhere deep inside you wish you were more like them, or had something that they have, even if it is just one thing. This is probably the reason why so many people on social media have created accounts to post encouraging, or inspiring quotes to the people who feel insecure about themselves, as they still believe that perfection is real and achievable. Over the years, people have slowly started to realise that perfection isn’t real, and some celebrities have spoken out about it<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I’m not perfect<\/span>
\n-and I don’t live to be-“<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0– Bob Marley\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHave no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.\u201d <\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 – Salvador Dali<\/span><\/p>\n

“Airbrushing and digital manipulation can project an unobtainable image that\u2019s dangerously unhealthy. I\u2019m more interested in women who aren\u2019t perfect . They\u2019re more compelling.\u201d<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 – Emma Watson<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With public figures such as these speaking out against the ‘perfection’ fantasy, it is bringing the expectations which we see on social media down to its knees. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks for reading my first post, I hope you liked what you read and feel free to leave any comments you may have at the bottom. My next blog post will be about body image and how people and companies on social media only portray the ‘perfect’ figure. Bye for now!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perfection. One word with an infinite amount of meanings. Where do I begin? Well I can start by saying DO NOT Google it because all you’ll find is pathetic definitions with words like ‘flawless’ and ‘excellence’ attached to it. I don’t know about you, but in my opinion I believe that perfection doesn’t exist, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,9,12,11,8,7,3,5,10,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/daniscattergood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}