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Everybody thinks they’d be happy if they had the perfect body. Many people believe that life would be so much easier if they were in perfect physical condition—that somehow they’d get better jobs, have better romantic partners, have a more exciting social life and just find the minutia of everyday life easier. Of course, if you were to speak to someone who you believe has the perfect body, you’d find that she—like you—experiences sadness, anger, frustration and even rejection (yes, rejection) on a regular basis. People with perfect bodies still get flat tires, still have health scares, still have dating struggles and still find life challenging at times. But on top of that, they have to be at the gym three hours a day. Ugh. Perhaps we put too much importance on the perfect body. Here is why aspiring to have the perfect body is just dumb.
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You’ll fight an uphill battle with age
Maybe in yours 20s and 30s you can pop up at 6 in the morning and hit the gym two hours before work. Maybe when you’re young you can starve yourself and run on pure adrenaline and excitement to keep you going. But beyond that age, you’ll have to work immeasurably harder to keep that body. In fact, you’ll probably let it go at that point. So what was the point of being miserable in your 20s and 30s? Everybody was going to see your flaws eventually!
