Being Perfect

I read a book not too long ago entitled that. It was really good about setting down the backpack full of bricks that you carry around when you are trying to be perfect all the time. I think that Ben is like that. He did a really good job on his talk today in sacrament meeting and spent all day yesterday preparing for it and all morning practicing it, but then afterwards he was talking about how he felt like he didn't do a good job. I wish that he could put down the backpack and just be himself sometimes, not perfect just real. You know? None of us are perfect. Except for Jesus, of course. All the rest of us are just trying to be ... I don't know what. To be real. Just keep it real.