Striving for Unachievable Perfection

In this world,

You can't be too nice or too mean. Too skinny or too fat. Too loud or too quiet. Too outgoing or too shy. Too childish or too mature. Too lazy or too hard-working. Too funny or too serious. Too original or too mainstream.

You can't smile too much, laugh too much, frown too much or cry too much.You can't even be perfectly between both because then you're considered boring. So the only thing you can really be is, well, yourself, whoever that may be. "It doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else." Because people are silly and expect everyone to be perfect because (even though?) they aren't themselves.

If everyone's perfect, then no one is. So if no one's perfect, everyone is. Everyone is perfect. Perfection is the combination of your qualities and flaws because these make the perfect you. But society pokes and prods, stretches and squishes you into become something else; creating a big mess of people trying, trying, trying to be more interesting, more popular, more "indie", less generic, less nerdy or whatever else. All they needed to do was just be.

Then they'd find the right people, belong and be happy.

Sincerely,
Me