IDEAL IS NOT PERFECT AND PERFECT IS NOT IDEAL (Lessons from The Black Swan)
Human beings always intrigue me as much as they fascinate me. We have been taught from our childhood to be ideal – ideal child, ideal student, ideal professional, ideal husband, ideal father, ideal son, ideal brother- so many varied roles we play throughout our life and in all of these we have our defined precincts. We operate within these and try to be ideal. In many of my talks I say “ Try for excellence, perfection is God’s business ”. This entire excellence is programming us to reach the bookmarks of IDEAL in whatever role we play. But then what is ideal is never perfect. This wonderful depth gets unveiled in a recently viewed academy award winning Hollywood film - The Black Swan. I salute the makers of this film and the entire cast who have churned out a masterpiece. In the film there is a story of a ballerina who portrays the white swan so easily. But the challenge comes when she has also to p...