How do you know?

I find that everything is a matter of perspective, One mans garbage is another mans gold right? So how do you know what you think you know if you don't have a perspective, or perhaps an incomplete view of where in the grand scheme of things you and the people around you stand? The simple answer....... you don't.

So how could one know they were standing next to the most faboulous person the world has ever known if you've never had a good close look at the other end of the scale? How would you know that I'm such a bad person when the act I've been trying to follow is nothing short of perfect? And how would I know that you're so amazing if I've had nobody else in my life for so long? Consider sombody who has been lost in the desert for a week, crawling around in the sand slowly baking into people-jerky for the condors, if you handed them a glass full of ditch water they would gulp it down thinking it was the ambrosia of the gods...... and of course the other end of the scale being the person raised on strawberries and champagine their whole life. Handing them a glass of regular tap water would be an insult to them.

Is medioracity acceptable?

Is perfection possible?

I'd have to say no, to both. Being 'good enough' just is'nt good enough! Just because perfection is an illusion does not mean wanting to be so is a crime, or something you should'nt want or try to be. The road to perfection has no end as the destination does not exist..... but I'll be the first one to try and travel that road, even knowing the futility of it. Will I walk that road alone? I think the real question is will you come with me?

So back to the ideal of 'how do you know?'

I'm going to turn the tables on myself here and ask the questions backwards. How do I know that I was so good? I've not had anybody to pay attention to in that fassion for so long, perhaps I forgot that I am in fact such a horrible person that no matter how many great things I do it's still not good enough. How can I know that you're so bad when nobody has taken the time to kick me while I've been down? It's all a matter of perspective right? So how do I know? simple answer...... I don't.

On a tangent here though...... a new answer to 'how do you know?' simple.... go looking for the things you want to know. it's the only way to find out...... and I have, so I do infact know, and it could'nt have hurt more.