Blog Post 1

Feeling as though I need to have perfection in my life has always been a constant struggle I've dealt with. Although, recently, I've more or less worked on myself and convinced myself that life isn't perfect and neither is anybody else. With that being said, there was a point in my life where I would have never even fathomed that idea. Roxane Gay had a fairly similar mindset as I did in my childhood. I would read so many novels and pieces of fiction, my favorite genre. It is very common to get caught up in a good book, which is exactly what I would do. The world in a book is completely different, especially to my own life, so why not let yourself feel as though it's your own reality? However, worlds in novels are far from reality. They are so perfect and pristine, with at least one conflict somewhere in the middle that inevitably gets solved by the last page. In the real world, things are obviously not this way. There are trials and errors constantly, and things don't just get solved by themselves by the end of the week. I eventually realized this as I became older, and my manifestation of trying to live a "perfect" life (whatever that may mean) gradually diminished. Wanting order and control in one's life is completely understandable, in fact encouraged in my opinion. But having no problems or struggles whatsoever and getting along with every human being on Earth is not realistic, and that's okay. It's about enjoying your time with what you have, and making your own life what you need it to be, not shaped in a frame modeled after a novel, or somebody else.