1 John 4:18 says "She didn't have to be perfect because she was perfectly loved." And that verse might just be the most important thing I've ever heard.
I am a self-proclaimed perfectionist. I put an extreme amount of pressure on myself to make my life goes exactly right. This manifests itself in school, in relationships, in everything. And it's exhausting.
You see perfection is simply not possible. Even when I achieve everything I want, there is still more to do. If I get perfect grades, the pressure is on to do the same next semester. And that's just one example. All perfectionism really is is the pressure not to make any mistakes. It's the pressure to appear that everything is together all the time. And that's simply not human.
God did not make us perfect or incapable of mistakes. Instead, he created us as something I like to call "perfectly imperfect." And when I realize the beauty of this, perfection seems rather undesirable. As perfectly imperfect, we get to make mistakes and we get to learn from them. We get to learn about forgiveness and how to make ourselves better. And what would life be without the learning experiences, without the ability to grow and change.
We might mistakes, but God certainly does not. And if that's true, then there's definitely a reason he made us this way. He wanted us to learn how to live, how to grow from our mistakes. He wanted us to use our mistakes to grow closer to him and to find perfection not in ourselves but in faith.
So I am learning to be content with my perfectly imperfect self and to be content in the life I am blessed to live.