Impress yourself

When you are striving for perfection, who are you trying to impress? A whole pile of people who don't care in the first place?

We are taught to believe that what other people say or think about us matters. So much so that we gain behaviours such as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCB). Inherently we know we cannot control other peoples thoughts, so we try to control a thing.

My OCD is having everything linear. I cannot control an out of control world, but I can be sure to have all my pictures straight at all times! 

No one is perfect. It's impossible. What IS possible is being real with yourself. You have nothing to prove to anyone else. All that energy that you are using to do that can be better spent proving to yourself how great of a being you are. Be your imperfect self and know that its an okay place to be. <3