Perfect moments exist only when we meet them for the first time.
We look for perfect moments. We prepare for them. We expect them. And then we are disappointed that we never experienced them.
- Did we get the formula wrong?
- How did change get in the way?
- How prepared do we need to be?
— Needs. #recognize
On the dance floor sat a dancer. Their body throbbing with anticipation for the moment to shine. The preparation was relentless. The lights started to brighten. And their dance began.In those few seconds, the rush and the motion alive in the stillness awaiting primed for success flew in fury with the music launch — every step calculated, every swirl carefully articulated.
The shape took over. The mind melded with the silence the movement commanded. There was no room for anything else.
What needed to happen did. What we wanted to happen is up for debate. That is where almost every perfect moment either dies or comes to life.
— Delta. #understand
If we take a step back we come to the practice room — a space where we think and analyze. We have the time to witness the differences. To measure the changes and optimize the deltas we see in their imperfections and modulations.And in each iteration, we model an expectation. We fail. We succeed. We overachieve. We embrace relativity. And consequently, we lose.
We lose in the preparation what we sought out of it. The modeling conveys an anticipated outcome and the certainty our mind craves will solidify that tragedy.
For which matter more, the outcome we already achieved in practice or the success the preparation will resolve in the moment of the performance?
I’d wager it’s the final presentation that matters. And for that moment there is never a relative moment.
Relativity kills perfection.
Yet, does that render the preparation obsolete? What happens when there is nothing to compare to? Is perfection achievable?
— No precedence. #accept
The preparation is important not as a primer for perfection but study. The outcome you want will always be exactly what it needs to be.No matter how many times you repeat or replay, the same desired outcome we will yield. If that’s not the case then we have yet to find the outcome we seek.
And if on the off chance, we were worried we would end up with a different conclusion then that wasn’t THE conclusion in the first place.
Perfection can only happen on the stage because that’s where there is no room for anything else. The precious perfect moment is NOW unfiltered, unburdened, and unconditioned with no precedence.
When we are as surprised as the audience by what we achieved, we land on a perfect moment that surpasses the wrong expectation often blocking us from ever meeting it.
Until next time,
Carlo
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