How to be Perfect

Last week, Ms. Lord gave us an excerpt from "How to be Perfect", but Ron Padgett.
I found this poem intriguing. While all of the advice on here is valid, and would probably benefit anyone who reads, I feel an urge to follow none of it.

For example, the poem starts out like this:
"Get some sleep.
Eat and orange every morning.
Be friendly. it will help make you happy.
Hope for everything. Expect nothing..."

Pretty "ordinary" advice.

Then, as the poem continues, some more questionable pieces of advice are given.
For example,
"Imagine what you would like to see happen, and then don't do anything to make it impossible"

What I think is happening in the poem is that the obvious idea actions are places at the beginning of the poem. As the poem goes on, "perfect" takes on a new definition. In the previous line, "perfect" is being in the ideal emotional state of not feeling obligated to do anything.

The above quote especially relates to my project. I talked about the masochist defense in one of my previous entries. Refresher: the masochist defense is all about wanting to say "no" to authority figures, even if that means putting your own well-being in danger. It is also associated with "wanting" yourself to fail deep down, to put it bluntly. This one line emulates this perfectly!
In a way, you're so afraid of failing at making what you want happen, that you fail yourself in another way by doing nothing at all.

This is what I've been feeling.

I worry that I'm not going to get the answer I want when emailing someone or not finding the information I want when researching, so sometimes I do nothing, and it causes me an even greater failure.

Any who, so that's obviously not the whole poem, but I just wanted to share how I was able to connect with part of it.