Confessions of a wandering mind

These days, I am noticing that wherever I go, everyone seems to want to give me free advice. "You should stop doing that, saying this". "You should do this, say that, act like this, behave like that" etc. etc. etc. At least in the past one month, I found every single person I met, or talk to, had some advice to share. It made me stop and think. Wait, why am I getting this barrage of advice from everyone. After some inward looking and analysis of self, I realized it is because of the fact that I have been openly talking to people about how I have been going through depression and going for counseling for the past year or so and that I am slowly feeling better. There it started,  you don't know how to pick your friends, you don't know what to say to who, you don't know who to keep friendships, and you need to stop talking like this, start doing this, etc. etc. Then I asked myself, If I were to go back and redo it, would I do it any differently? Maybe not...

Sometimes, the need for perfection can get you obsessed about things in life. Especially if you are brought up in a certain way where you are punished if you came second in class, and you cannot be anything but perfect. Perfection may not be bad but when you are chasing perfection, you may overwork yourself, get stressed, and lose sleep over things. Especially when you are working in a team and the team does not deliver to perfection, you may find yourself sleepless, and with a desperate need to fix things. It is important to let go of that need for perfection sometimes, let go of the need to do everything right, need to fix everything. It is hard, but once you do it, over time, it will get easier.