buzzing in the ears

They have asked why "good enough" is not "good enough". They wonder what might be required to make "good enough" an acceptable option. Olympic athletes refuse to accept "good enough" until all possible attempts at something better are made (with the exception of some badminton players). Non-athletes do this too: lawyers, doctors, artists, musicians. Those who rise to the top, find a place in the collective consciousness of an era, a lifetime, a decade, a weekend, all refuse to live with "good enough". Do they not?

Is there always a dangling neuron rebelliously sparking in the brain-stem of a human being, even after some great accomplishment has been achieved, greater heights have been reached, telling the human being that to settle with that accomplishment, however lofty, is to accept "good enough"? Or, if the mountain has been scaled first, or fastest, or without oxygen, or while hopping backward on one foot, why does that same doubtful neuron wonder why it hadn't been done better?

There is room for improvement, and this is a good thing. There is a balance to achieve between improvement and acceptance. So often, attempting improvement is overwhelming and acceptance, at the realization of this fact, receives a powerful lashing from an electrified ganglia. The result of imbalance is a fall. The outcome of a fall is often injury and sometimes death. An injury can be healed, death is inevitable. Healing and growing is better than dying and rotting. Healing and growing are "good enough" and allow a return to balance.