I believe perfection does not exist.
Now I'm talking about our world. Not any kind of "world beyond" of whatever religion you point at. Because for me "perfection" means a state of absolute flawlessness, and while I do admit that is a nice goal, once achieved it wouldn't be so great. Why? For if something is flawless, there is no room for improvement and if something doesn't of CAN'T improve, it stagnates. And I think we can agree that stagnation is not really the best state of being. Still waters tend to stink, right?
If there ever should be a state of being "perfect" in my opinion, it would have to be subject to change yet one that does not hamper or enhance the state of being, yet makes it feel different. Sounds weird, I know. However, if something is to be "perfect" it has to be flawless, therefore there is no space for enhancement, yet for it to stay "perfect" it need to change some of it's elements without affecting it's flawlessness. And that is quite hard to even imagine, even more to realize.
But that's just my view of the subject. One of my friends consider "perfection" a state of being aware of oneself, at peace of a sort. It's really hard for me to explain 'cause we haven't talked about it much. The point is - when he says: "I'm perfect", it doesn't sound of arrogance. He is well aware of his imperfections, small and big ones.
Why I'm saying this is that his view is just as valid as mine or anyones else for that matter.
And to confuse you guys even more, I'll add that I consider "perfection" to be something outside of human range of understanding, therefore every definition of perfection is inherently flawed, for we can not define what we don't know. That's why we can claim God is perfect - we define the undefinable with another undefined and possibly also undefinable.
Edit: well now, from when I started to write this till when I finished some of my ideas got mentioned. I hope you still find this interesting
