Everything in this world is a cover-up; because the wise man knows that he should always play on his strengths; and we know for a fact that no one is perfect; yet, seemingly perfect things do exist!
So all that you see around and describe as perfect, is just an illusion. The wise man plays his dice so well that he extends the awe an observer finds in his strengths to fill out the entire volume of his effort/work, making it look complete, a whole, a masterpiece tending to perfection.
The more adept he is in creating this illusion of perfect, the more can brilliance be attributed to him.
The more adept he is in creating this illusion of perfection, the lesser will the observer ever focus on the things he would not have done justice to.
Hence, the more wise you become in seeing beyond that meets the eye, the better you would be able to generate an understandings of the shortcomings of the seemingly perfect.
Hence, in a better position would you be to convert those shortcomings into your strengths, either through an effort towards improvement, or through the devising of the most spectacular cover-up that would keep that knowledge hidden from the rest of the world of gullible observers and followers.
But because your mind can actually benchmark the notion of perfection, somewhere in the depths of pure thought, the idea of perfections prevails in its truest sense, and every time we look at something ‘prefect’, it causes that same chord to ring in our mind and soul that borrows its elements from the true notion of perfection.
The notion of perfection seemingly is a truth given that every individual, however unrelated, has a similar metric for judging perfection and highness. There is a census that tends to develop in basic human understanding towards the things that pry opening new doors of realizations and revelations, the doors of the treasury of pure thought, of wisdom without words.
So, perfection in itself is not an illusion. But what we find all around us is just an illusive representation of the quality of perfection!

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October 24, 2011 at 5:17 pm
GSC
Good one.But do not be critic while you believe perfection is illusive.
October 24, 2011 at 5:44 pm
nothingverbose
Ya don’t worry about me becoming critical. I support the theory of multiple perspectives.
Moreover, this short essay is not ‘a proposed tool for criticism’, rather it is supposed to be telling the reader that ‘the pursuit of perfection is easier than it seems to be’!