Better Or Perfect

If you do only the good that you want to do, you will be a better person than if you did nothing, right?  But Jesus did not say, "Be better as your Father is better."  He said, "Be perfect as your Father is perfect."  I think that if we try and do the good we DON'T want to do, then we are moving from better to perfect.  So, if there is some way that you can be helpful to others, but decide not to go there or do that, but just stay in your personal comfort zone of good behavior, you are at the 'better" but.  Example: Recovery person skips meetings where they could be of service to other newcomers, but does daily meditation that suits them.  I have found that when you stay on the level of better, eventually, you move down the ladder to mediocrity.  Disaster is not far from there.  Just sayin'