Name a book that changed your mind or opened your eyes.

I came across this prompt on Plinky, a nifty site I came across through another blog a few days ago.

How To Be a Perfect Person In Just Three Days by Stephen Manes

How To Be a Perfect Person In Just Three Days! by Stephen Manes.

I read this book during childhood a few times. It had the protagonist doing silly things like tying a broccoli around his neck in a vain attempt at following the steps to be perfect that were outlined in a book he had found. The last step was to stay up all night drinking weak tea. Sounds pretty easy in the age of the Internet, right? Except all he could do was move his arm to bring the weak tea to his lips, anything else would make him fail. He fails and fails hard.

This book made me realize there it is impossible for anybody or anything to be perfect. It’s important to try for your best but perfection would quickly become boring! Would anybody appreciate the good things they have in life if everything was good or would somebody’s good qualities stand out if everything about that person was perfect?

Maybe reading this book worked too well and I never aimed for my best in a lot of things – excepting writing, coding, and English courses – but it kept me from becoming miserable about the fact that I am far from perfect.