Perfect enough pairing

I took a moment for myself today; I didn't need the moment, but wanted it, so made it happen by dropping into a café I frequent from time to time and sitting with a coffee and cookie watching the world go by.

I'd had a busy morning at work, [hectic if I'm honest], of preparing quotes for a customer that [as often happens] were required urgently.

Last night I'd spoken with the customer, a truck dealer selling the trucks to his own customer, who described what would have been easy quotes which I advised I'd email by 10:00 this morning. Two simple and identical quotes of about $40,000 in value each, no problem. But...Things changed. I should have known.

As it turned out the quotes were not identical or simple at all; they were complicated and completely different - same type of truck, two completely different purposes. This meant the quotes were very time consuming...but I'd promised them before 10:00 so I had to scramble. I got them done and emailed by 09:30 and a heartfelt thank you came back quickly from the truck dealer who is probably scrambling as much as I am to sell some trucks. I get it.

I decided a moment would be a good way to round out my morning with the view to getting back on it for the afternoon to run through to the end of the working day.

In the image you can see the perfect enough pairing...My coffee and the little cookie they always serve with it.

I'm off the sugar at the moment but still ate the cookie although it was small so no judgment required ok folks? It was a great combination and rather welcome, as was the time I spent watching people go about their day, walking around the lake and hanging around in the café or one of the others nearby. It was relaxing. But...not perfect.

I'm one who believes that perfection doesn't exist and, in truth, I don't want it to.

I like to think that there's always more and if one declares perfection how can one expect better? - I want better experiences, thoughts, knowledge, wisdom and learning, more to be had from, and give to, relationships and myself generally...You know? I don't want a perfect relationship or life, I want to keep working towards it as that's what brings satisfaction; the journey and it's moments.

I hold firmly to the perfect enough paradigm accepting that there's a certain beauty in imperfection and, rather than shunning it [the moments of life] in the pursuit of perfection, I value the less-than-perfect nature of life. Seeking the unattainable is only ever going to lead to disappointment - Best to accept the perfect enough paradigm and enjoy life now and into the future.

It's the same with people I guess...I often say that it's a person's imperfections that make them perfectly unique and have yet to meet someone who has no imperfections...I do not believe that person exists so I accept and value the imperfect people around me as they [mostly[ do me.

Anyway, as I enjoyed my perfect enough moment, the pairing of perfect enough coffee and cookie, I contemplated my less-than-perfect nights' sleep, my less-than-perfect morning attitude and the less-than-perfect start to my working day but instead of lament the imperfection I thought how fortunate I am that my feet hit the ground when I woke, that I have a roof over my head, a job, food on the table, a few good people around me and the mindset of gratitude to bind it all together.

I have much more than those few things I list of course, a whole life most will never see or know about and, I'll be honest, it's perfect enough.