Nothing Should be Flawless

Before I continue with my dissection of "The Feel Good Factor" I wanted to tell this story to all of you. Sometime back I was competing in a Sit & Draw competition. The subject of the painting was a moonlit night. Beautiful romantic topic to be painted in blue, black & white. So me being an artist my imagination was running full circle. I wanted to paint the full moon shining on a river and a boat floating on it.
I wanted to stress on the boat. The boat losing its way in the waters trying to reach the moon. And the moon !!! I tried to make it as flawless as possible. Shining in its own glory, even making this bad world look extremely beautiful.
Every body who were there around me praised my efforts:

1) The moon looks so beautiful
2) The Boat look so lost
3) The World seemed to be a great place to live in.

And there was this other fellow, painting just beside me. his moon was not flawless. He painted the moon in its true form, and he painted only the moon with all its craters. Even he praised my painting. Everybody was sure of me winning.
Results were out soon.

I DID NOT WIN THE PRIZE. I don't know whether he won either.