Perfection destroys many excellent dreams.  When I first started reading about sailing, I encountered articles that discussed the characteristics of the perfect yacht.  These articles were written as if the perfect yacht really did exist.  Maybe they were written by someone living in a parallel universe, different from our own, in which perfection was possible.  In all of the years I have been sailing, I never saw the perfect yacht.  None of them even came close.  All of them were compromises.  Here on planet earth where I live, there are no perfect yachts.  Maybe the authors were writing about perfect yachts in the Big Yacht Club in the Sky.

I have met many people who wanted to cruise around the world or the Caribbean on a perfect yacht.  After years of searching, these sailors finally realize the perfect yacht doesn’t exist, and so they make a compromise.  They buy an excellent one or maybe just a good one.  Then perfection pays a visit and tells them they can convert their excellent yacht into a perfect one.  It will only take a few years and a few thousand dollars to make it happen.  So, go ahead.  Do it.  It will be worth the effort, and you will be glad you did.

They spend years trying to convert their good yacht into a perfect one.  The years thunder by and they grow old, entangled in perfection’s web.  When they finally realize perfection is impossible, they are too old and poor to sail on the ocean of their dreams.

Excerpt from :

Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking : Good-by Depression - Hello Positive Mind

David J Abbott M.D.