The Case For Embracing Imperfection

The future is messy and ugly and imbalanced. How do I know? Because too much is polished now. Too much is perfect. Everything is cleaned up, edited, smoothed out. We’ve created machines and programs and tools that attempt to rid us of our humanity. 

“It’s easy. It takes what I do and makes it better.” Does it though? Or are we just conditioned to believe that imperfect is undesirable? That imperfect is embarrassing? 

We are facing a world where we are attempting to take perfected versions of ourselves into real life.

We are not only applying fillers and filters to our faces, we are now trying to apply it to our personalities, our relationships, our work, our creativity. We are so terrified of the things that make us innately human — our “imperfections”, that we are trying to artificially manufacture perfection across our entire lives. 

When Botox and airbrushing and AI are the norm, relatability and nuance and imperfection becomes rare. If a consumer can’t see themselves in your product, they won’t buy it. Our digital world may be inundated with perfection, but the real world still has flaws.

In a world of fake, be real.