Plastic blue tumber vs. Holy Grail

Why is the search for someone so all consuming in us? Why are we looking for someone who is "perfect" (those are rock quotes for those in the "know"), who has to match up with all of the different checkpoints that we have for someone in our heads? Isn't it the flaws, the imperfections that make a person interesting? Those flaws are what make us different, what make us individuals. I mean, if we could attain perfection, whatever that might be, wouldn't there be a bunch of people there? The same way that everyone knows someone that got a perfect score on the SAT, everyone would know someone that was perfect.

How could anyone be perfect? The idea itself is insane. As if anyone could ever be everything that everyone wants/needs. I know that I'm not everything that everyone wants. I mean, most do, but not all. I figure that the idea of perfection in a person is a personal thing. One person will have a different version than the next person, and so on. It's when we focus on those specific traits and things that we want that we start to lose the fact that we are dealing with a person, not a grocery list. Most importantly, we forget that what people find interesting and engaging in us, are our flaws and imperfections. We try to hide these things, try to be a different person. I mean, if you are a dork, than that's what is going to do it for you, so stop fighting it. Let the actual you, not the one that you allow people to see on a regular basis, but you be what people meet. If that doesn't work, than screw those people. They are probably an asshole anyway. Better off not knowing them at all.