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@Shoshin1 said:
Master the art of perfect imperfection

I gave up goals, and ended up being just as I am.

@Jeroen
The polar bears, the pumas, the wolves, all are "Flying into the glass window".
I am pained by their demise as much as a sparrow, a pigeon, a deer or a monkey.
They do not see the "Glass Windows/Walls". Wolves inside Yellowstone are lured outside the park boundaries and murdered by "Hunters" for "Sport" or for their state bounty.
Pumas in Florida are losing their habitat to land thieves (developers), Mountain lions in California are precious and as are the condors and Pelicans.
Mourn no less for the polar bear than the sparrow or pigeon. The are all our cousins.

Peace to all

Someone once said, "If you want perfection, become an engineer."
In life, we do not seek perfection, an impossible goal to achieve.
We may seek what we perceive to be more perfect, closer to perfection.
Yet what we are almost always seeking is balance.
A Buddha is an awakened (enlightened) one, not a perfect being.
After all, Buddha arises from within an ordinary person, never the other way around.
It can be said that when a person steps or emerges from the fog of fundamental darkness and into the bright day of full awakening, that is enlightenment or Buddha, if he or she turns around and reenters that fog, that Buddha does not leave the light, but carries it to lead others and show them, enable them to also walk the path that leads to their own emergence from the fog.
What them is a Bodhisattva? It has been said that one who displays all the actions characteristic of a Buddha. Such a person perhaps caught glimpses of the " Bright Daylight" but has not yet fully emerged and is still seeking.

Of course, that is merely my understanding. You may agree, disagree, have a completely different understanding. That is all right. I am not her to convince you one way or another. This is as I see it, no more - no less.

Peace to you