Why is perfection so important?

I really don't know. I can only speculate, but that will come later. Perfection is so boring and yet so many people (myself included sometimes) try to put people off by seeming perfect, doing it to hide something about themselves, or to protect themselves from getting hurt. People who use the perfection illusion to keep a wall between them and other people are generally lonely and think that for people to love them, well, they have to be perfect because they don't love themselves and don't see how others could either. They can't love themselves because they hold themselves to impossible standards. Everyone has days where there is a wall up between them and the rest of the world. Everyone has days when they need to protect themselves a little more from getting hurt. Everyone has days when it seems easier to crawl inside their shells and not exist. That is fine sometimes, but people who do that too much, who have been hurt too many times, stop living. They are always fine, never bad, never good. To really experience life you HAVE to be willing to deal with the bad, because without it you never get the good. And that leads us to the topic of balance, which is for another time.