The Importance Of Being Imperfect

Modern LIFE TODAY, WITH ALL ITS SCIENTIFIC and social advance, has continued to produce a surprising number of humorless, anxious men and astringent, nerveless women who say they are not perfect and behave as though they were. The wide public belief that these perfectionists comprise only a minority group of superior souls who work harder than anybody, and refer to it oftener, is not quite true. In their striving to reach or to maintain a fancied state of flawlessness they have invaded virtually every aspect of modern society.