Perfect Wanting

I, like most people, have always wanted to have a perfect life, full of joy and accomplishments. People who have this type of goal always dream of how it would be if you had accomplished everything you desired. In Pygmalion’s case what he desired the most was to have the perfect woman as his wife. “He was a sculptor, and had made with wonderful skill a statue of ivory, so beautiful that no living woman came anywhere near it.” His desire was so perfect it couldn’t be compared with anything previously imagined. His desire was so perfect it couldn’t be created but with ivory.

After achieving knowledge on what you want, you start desiring, planning and doing everything that is in your hand to achieve your goal. Pygmalion desired passionately his perfect wife and asked the gods to help him in his quest for fulfillment. “Ye gods, who can do all things, give me, I pray you, for my wife.” As some people do, he went to the gods when he needed them, and worshiped them when he needed assurance that his goal would be achieved.

When we fulfill that perfect goal, we are incredibly joyous, millions of feelings pass through our mind, trying to assure us that we have achieved is completely real. “While he stands astonished and glad, though doubting, and fears he may be mistaken, again and again with a lover’s ardor he touches the object of his hopes.” We can see the relationship between this story and new “discoveries” such as those taught in movies like “The Secret”. We could even say that Pygmalion’s quest is the foundation of perfect desire and accomplishment.