Perfection. Everybody strives for it, but none receive it. Perfection is different to each human body.
To one, it may be the perfect face, the skinniest body. To another it may be, becoming the star athlete. And yet to another, it may be, going to Harvard. Perfection is up to you. Until the day it’s not.
“To be or not to be that is thy question.”
I roll my eyes. It 's the end of the day and all I want to do is go home. I glance back at the clock. 3 minutes. I sigh and turn my attention back to the movie.
The teacher stops and says “ Okay, We will start the movie back up next week. You guys may pack up now.” He sits back down and everyone moves to pack up.
I put up my books and the bell rings. As I walk out class my father calls me.
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“Okay, so what is it exactly that you want?”
“Uh, well I want one side cut to my chest and the other side shaved”
Julie smiles. “Alright, easy enough.”
She raises my chair and starts to cut one side of my hair. I look at the floor. There are at least 5 inches on the floor. I sigh silently.
When she is finished with that side she quickly cuts the other side as short as it can go.
Julie grabs the hair clippers and starts to shave it. After a minute or so she turns it off and flips me around to look in the mirror. For the first time in a while, I let out a genuine smile.
“Well?”
I look back at her, smiling still. “It’s awesome.”
She smiles.”Alright, what color do you want?”
“I- Uh, don’t actually know. I was hoping one would come to me but..”
Julie giggles, “Why don’t you try..” She moves a few bottles of hair dye around. “rainbow?”
“Alright,” I say my cheeks heating up, though I 'm not sure why.
Julie leans my chair back and puts on gloves, starting to put the dye in. “So why did you move?” Julie asks.
I move a little squirming.
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have asked that.”
“No, it;s okay. Last year I wasn’t is the right mental place. I got really depressed. I started harming myself and- Well I was getting bullied a lot and we moved before anything.”
Julie frowns.
“I really sorry that happened to you, babe.”
I blush slightly as she goes to the back.
She comes back out, her phone in hand. “It’s gonna take about 25 to 30 minutes for
As soon as she is seated, she pushes of with her hands and slides down.
When you strive for perfection, failure is inevitable. Some things are unattainable, and a perfect appearance
Della sets out to cut her hair and lowers again after she sets out with the money, but
He smiles brightly at his colorful scenery. He heaves himself off the floor to find a pair of scissors and some glue. When he finishes his quest and returns to the floor, he hands the scissors to his sister. "Cut them out and we can paste them onto whichever background you want to." She nods and carefully starts cutting. "I know you've already named them. Mind if I know?" She giggles playfully.
This means that strived perfection won’t only be changed on the outside; the inside will be changed as well. Westerfield states, “ ‘Becoming pretty doesn’t just change the way you look,’ she said. ‘No,’ David said. ‘It changes the way you think.’ ” This quote is found in the book, The Uglies, on page 268. This means that changing yourself is skin deep and not only in the looks. Most of the Uglies were persistent to become pretty that they didn’t realize that when they get the operation, they were being set up and changed internally to believe and do what they government wants them to do. As a result, perfection does take away uniqueness and
“That was a close one,” said John. “My mother has been telling me to get a hair cut. I
The writer ends the essay with a conclusion taking a form of reflection. The writer gives a different definition to perfection other than the one he uses to consider before. So he decided Perfection doesn’t mean getting good grades or having a good personality. Yet, perfection mean strong character and good personnel
She used the scissors to cut his hair until she could no longer make it shorter. He then snipped hers until it barely reached her shoulders, as opposed to its former mid-back length. She
No one is perfect, We may try to be or aspire to be, But it can never be humanly possible. The definition of beauty in the Webster's dictionary states " Pleasing the senses of the mind, Or being very high standard of looks. Often in the world man attempts to perfect mother nature. During most of these occasions this attempt leads to devastating endings, such as in the case of The Birth Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
“Ethan, you do not have to cut your hair, it is just a silly tradition. Don’t let them pressure you into doing something that you don’t wish to do,” she said.
Like today in the 21st century, being perfect is the most talked about concern in majority of our women today. Being beautiful classifies being prefect. Being perfect classifies
She realizes this fact and runs her hands through her long hair, whilst staring at her dresser. She runs over to it, retrieving the scissors, just as she had in the dream. She stares into the mirror with the determination to cut her hair and truly embrace her identity by beginning this process of change.
Perfection. A word that will never be attainable but so many of young women strive for it. Why? Magazines, instagram, twiter, facebook, snapchat. Today’s media has dominated the way young women see themselves. Young women are constantly comparing themselves to Kendall Jenner, Kim Kardashian, or even their best friend.
Being perfect is the main theme that most of the women strive for it. Everyone today watches and buys the movies, magazines, news, advertisements and we see celebrities with the “perfect” bodies. It is not our fault. Media sometimes it manipulates women through the technology by using Photoshop and makes women look with perfect body and mark these false creations as flawless and inspirational. For instance, making a female to look ideal is tricking the society into thinking that we must have to be like that. We live and exist and it doesn’t mean that we suck just because we are not perfect as others who pretend to be with perfect bodies. Our society wants us to look perfect and actually we are wasting our time of trying to reach that because it is something that we can’t do it and it is impossible. No one can be or are perfect.
Or should the question be: which meaning does it have in our society? Is it even possible to reach perfection, or is it something out of the hands of a human being? It is true that perfection is something everybody strives for, to help them succeed in the things they propose for their lives. Many people aspire to be perfect in different ways, it could be a mother, a student, a teacher or even an artist with that desire of reaching perfection, but do we know the real meaning of this word? According to the dictionary one of its meanings is “a quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of excellence.” (Dictionary, 2013) Excellence and perfection are far from being the same; which is why many people say it is impossible to be perfect but possible to reach Excellency, because perfection is supposed to exist as an abstraction of our minds, but not to be attainable in the physical world. (Wais, 2010)