Imperfection is Curiosity

Have you ever wondered why anything isn't just perfect? Even the most perfect of the perfects in this world has some imperfection it it, whether it being a highly polished surface, a perfectly carved diamond, or the wisest human being ever. Even if you divide something symmetrical into two equal halves with your highest precision, they still aren't equal perfectly. We always have this doubt in our mind. Even the symmetry of that object is not fully symmetrical. The regular handwash that we use, guarantees at most 99.99% germ kill. But that isn't fully effective. The makers of the handwash know this well that even if a single germ gets in contact with the liquid, it'll get killed. But still they aren't 100 percent sure that every germ will get killed. The best chefs of the world also can't assure that the food they cooked with their full effort is uniformly cooked. A perfectly spherical metal ball made with the highest computer precision is also very close to perfection: but not just perfect.

This doubt always persists in our mind. The feeling of full perfection of anything is like an ideal case for us. Hardly we can imagine about a perfectly symmetrical pattern. And if somehow we could form or even imagine about a fully symmetrical object in terms of its every aspect, then that will give us so much of pleasure, calmness, and a hyper relaxed state of consciousness, which we'll be unable to handle. That immense amount of satisfaction of mind will imply the end of curiosity in our mind.

But how this satisfaction is related to our curiosity? Curiosity is a boon to humans, and a curse too. The series of 'why' behind everything in our life can never end; we think so. Any rational explanation can never get over a why over it, at least for humans. Animals are also curious within a certain range of exploration, depending upon their intelligence level. This curiosity has taken humans from Stone age to space age. But the worst part of this is that we don't know where it'll finish completely; the same way that we don't know when something will be perfect fully.

You must have done that filling the shapes with colour activity in childhood. Like filling a circle with any colour, without mistakes like gaps or colour out of the circumference. When that is done smoothly in one go, gives us a kind of satisfaction. We can't see any flaws in that, and also we don't want to, as we know there are none. There ends our curiosity about giving a final touch to it, with its perfection.

So the example above slightly demonstrates that with increase in perfection, curiousness decreases.

Like the famous phrase, curiosity killed the cat, it won't be unfare to twist the plot with making curiosity a victim of perfection- perfection killed the curiosity.