Huh. That’s interesting. ‘Faultless’, ‘flawless’, ‘ultimate’, so many words that make absolute sense, yet I still don’t get it.. Hmm..
Oh you’re here. Great! Let’s talk..
Have you ever met someone who is really ‘perfect’? A person nice to be with, a hardworking and smart person, someone who goes through his/her day making everyone around them happy, someone who can’t kill a fly, someone who knows how to handle their responsibilities and how to help others handle theirs, someone with a Bharat Ratna and Nobel Prize probably 😛, someone who tosses a coin and always wins except when he intentionally wants to lose to a child, someone who never lies or someone who can catch lies even before they’re spoken, someone with a perfect family to go home to, someone who knows Ninjutsu, can shoot a sniper rifle or someone who equally likes DC and Marvel 😛 ?
Even if you take out the Nobel Prize thing.. or the Ninja stuff 😉 , I doubt any of us have seen this person yet. And this is just the beginning. I mean there are more qualities that one needs to become ‘ultimate’, right?
Well, imagine if there was someone born to be perfect. Literally, born to be made perfect.
I’ll talk about an anime series I just completed watching. It’s called ‘Monster’. No, no, don’t worry, this story isn’t about this anime. But I’ll use some references here and there 
Disclaimer: I’ll assume none of my readers will actually go and watch this anime just because I liked it, so I’ll be spoiling stories from the anime from this point till the end of the blog post. Deal with it 😎
So this anime is about a child who was born as a part of an experiment to become the one who could shape the future of the country. There was no clear indication as to what they wanted him to do for the country but nevermind, it was for the best or their definition of best.
He actually ended up becoming a cold hearted killer referred to as ‘Monster’ or ‘Devil’ by everyone who had known him. But that was probably part of the plan according to the people who thought they were pulling the strings.. well those people also end up dead.
The character doesn’t spend much screen time killing anyone though, well actually the character doesn’t have much screen time at all but he is still at the center of everything and we always feel his presence throughout the series. The character is indeed, a monster.
So why am I talking about this anime and the devilish character in it in the middle of a blog about perfection?
Well, it’s the story of how this child was raised and the experiments around him. Everything from his birth to everything he experienced was made ‘perfect’ by the string pullers. The father and the mother were selected as a part of the experiment, the kid was not given any name because he didn’t need one, there were psychological experiments carried out on him to shape him. He had a twin sister. Later in their story they both run away from their house and are later sent to an orphanage. The orphanage was also an experiment center where the boy and many other orphans were trained to lack emotions of care, trained to forget everything about their past and basically become rocks who can do anything and become anything.
I’m not very good at reviewing TV series or stuff so that’s the best I can explain it. But you get it right? This is exactly the stage someone needs to build a perfect person.
Let’s get back to our common idea of a perfect human.
You see I’ve already started calling it ‘human’ instead of person. Also ‘it’ instead of him/her.
The perfect human won’t cause any sadness around itself. Can a perfect human cry in front of others? No, because that would make others sad. Alone? That’s not very perfect if you ask me. There was a character in the anime, who had also been brought up in the same orphanage, who had lost his son and he didn’t know how to react to the loss. He didn’t cry because he didn’t know how many tears should be shed. And even if he did, it would be fake. He would generate tears if needed but did he need to?
He was made into a perfect spy for the country. He was perfect indeed.
Well, won’t a perfect person be reduced to being a robot who can generate emotions? But wouldn’t that also make everything fake?
Is fake real? Can fake be perfect?
Or do we need to be fake to be real? Do we need to be fake to be perfect?
A perfect human is not expected to get frightened by anything that comes to it because it has to save his loved ones from every fear. The perfect human needs to forget what fear and pain look like. The perfect human cannot be angry on anything because anger is unnecessary and it hinders their ability to think clearly. The perfect human cannot be angry on anyone because it knows the reason behind every of their actions and can empathize with them .
The perfect human follows the perfect schedule every day, never stepping out of line not because it lives for rules but because now it doesn’t ever feel like changing anything.
The perfect human cannot express its feelings if it has any possibility of hurting others, the perfect human can neither keep emotions that would hurt itself. The perfect human doesn’t have a particular taste in music because it would be disrespectful to the other artists.
The perfect human is understanding, obedient, selfless and too good to be bad at anything.
What if the entire world becomes this perfect? Imagine a world where there are no friendly quarrels, no kids breaking your windows playing cricket, no debates on what’s good and what’s not because everything is only good, everyone greeting each other, wishing for each others’ wellness to the point that there is no meaning left in repeating the same wishes again and again…
Sheer perfection. The end? Isn’t it? Yup, it is the ‘end‘.
What happens when this perfection destroys the person inside the human? What if perfection makes the human choose to ‘not belong’ anywhere only so that its presence or absence are alike to the rest of the world?
Nobody really deserves this monstrosity called perfection, nobody deserves to become the perfect devil to themselves.
The ‘monster’ character in the anime kills everyone who has ever known him in order to commit the perfect suicide. Probably because he decided he shouldn’t exist..
The light at the end of the tunnel has the power to make us walk towards it and we do wonders on our way to that light, but probably all that really lies at the end of the tunnel is our own life flashing back at us in bits and pieces of nothingness. But that doesn’t mean our journey was a waste, right? In fact, it makes the journey even more meaningful.
Perfection, in some sense is this master fabrication of human imagination which has never existed and should never ever exist. And probably it only makes sense to believe that we can aim for perfection as long as we never actually achieve it.
Because after all, if you have everything, your life isn’t complete.. it is over.
