Perfectionism, and Me

  I'm a perfectionist and plenty of other people are too. It's a fact about me people have helped me realize recently. Now in case you didn't know, perfectionism isn't all bad. It can help me do a better job in certain easy tasks, but in other cases, I completely abandon a task because I know deep down that I could never do it perfectly.

    Recently, I decided to join a musical theater class at my co-op. At first, I got scared, because I know that I'm not the best singer, and I might not do well, but I took a step back and asked myself, am I not doing this class because I know I wouldn't do perfect, or because I wouldn't have fun.
    After thinking about this for some time I realized that I'm okay at singing and I would enjoy myself so much if I just took this class. I accepted that I could never do perfect. So I took the class.
    I hope that if you are struggling with perfectionism then you would hear this and take a step back like I did and accept you aren't gonna get it perfect the first time. Maybe even fail. But hey, that's life.

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