Is it necessary to be perfect? It’s twelve o’ clock at midnight when she was still doing her homework. Books in her hand, she said to herself, “Come on. Just hold on a little bit longer and finish reciting this paragraph. ” Day after day passed, finally the examination come. She mustered all her strengths to answer every question calmly and carefully. Fortunately, she succeeded. She defeated the “other people’s children” this time. Who’s SHE? She is both you and me. This is a common story of most Chinese children. We grew up together with “the other people’s children”. It seems like that “other people’s children” is the avatars of perfection. He can do anything well while we can’t. Any different answer to the existence of him could lead us down a totally different path. On one hand, some regarded him as the enemy. In this case, the other people’s children will use big frustration to make us fully surrender to his excellence. When we use “I’m afraid I can’t do it well”as an excuse, we are fully caught in the trap of “We are imperfect” and gradually we’ll lose our confidence. On the other hand, some regarded him as a model. They are determined that they can one day beat the other people’s children, better themselves while struggle. Who’s the other people’s children? I am. As well as you are. It’s dramatic that when we are under the pressure of the other people’s children, or rather perfection, we have already become perfection itself. The other people’s child is a model of us and everyone can be the model. This is the model not only of others, but also ourselves. The model tends to be the standard of perfect, and it pushes you to reach the high standard of perfect unconsciously, though it never have an exact height. However, just like we can not become others, it is impossible to reach the real perfect. A professional chess player devoted his life on chess, but he can’t exceed the power of computer algorithm. Would he feel depressed and give up his pursuit just because he can’t defeat the computer and fail to reach the perfection? Of course not. Maybe he will just work with the computer and improve himself. In conclusion, it is impossible and not necessary to be perfect. But thanks to perfection, it provides us a invisible target to pursue. Maybe one day, you’ll surprisingly to find that you have already become a better me.