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Imperfections are perfectly fine

Peter Kammerer says if perfection is a mirage, then a more sensible attitude to life is to rethink our insecurities of being imperfect

Perfections is a mirage, says Peter Kammerer. Photo: Oliver Tsang

I shocked my mother during a visit home a few years ago. She had told me that if she could be given a single wish, it would be for my eyesight to be restored. I told her that being able to see was the last thing I wanted. To say that she was speechless is to make light of the 10 minutes of silence that ensued.

When she had regained her composure, the conversation turned to the topic of perfection - starting with perfect vision. Never having had such a thing, being born blind in one eye and having gradually lost the little sight I had known in the other, it is not a matter I can relate to. Why would I want something I am unfamiliar with? I have adapted to my circumstances, am happy with them and feel no need to change them.