"Perfect. Imperfect. A pair of adjectives that come over and again, in
all seasons, day in and day out, taunting us, judging us, isolating us, turning
our isolation into illness. Is there a more accomplished adjective than
perfect? Perfect is free from comparison, perfect rejects superlative. We can
always be good, do better, try our best, but how perfect can we be before we
can love ourselves and let others love us? And who, my dear child, has taken
the word lovable out of your dictionary and mine, and replaced it with perfect?"
~Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End, 2019
0 comments:
Post a Comment