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Imagine for a moment that it’s 3 am on a Wednesday and I’m up late… again. I haven’t been out at the Swamp, at least not on this particular evening, and I’m certainly not studying for a test. I’m up because I started making alternate uniforms for my NCAA 2005 dynasty team, and for the past 3 hours I’ve wrestled over the sock style my players should wear. Little projects such as these plague my daily life and have done so for as long as I can remember.
Hello everyone, my name is and I am a chronic perfectionist. Yes, I know it is a strange problem to have but my obsession with needing things to be “just right” is the epitome of a blessed curse. First I will explain the disadvantages of being a perfectionist, followed by the advantages, and finally I’ll tell you why I am how I am.
One of the many disadvantages to being a perfectionist is that I’m never satisfied with the status quo. Take the football game for example. I don’t think I even play the game for the football experience so much as I am trying to build the perfect college football squad. When it comes time to recruit new players, I have the scouting list out and everything. All this over a stupid video game. It’s ridiculous.
Another good example is that being a perfectionist often makes me late for things. On many occasions I have only caught the last two hours of a costume party because I was too busy perfecting my costume.
Perfectionism also has potential for criminal behavior. I’m not sure if I should admit to this, but when I was 16 I made fake I.D.s for me and my buddies. I would spend all of my time perfecting the art of a fake I.D. I even bought special stickers from the internet so that my cards would be near perfect replicas. I now realize how foolish that was considering the potential for trouble, but it’s just things like that that I obsess over.
I don’t want to make it seem like its all bad. These energies put for...