Do I Have To Be Perfect

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An assumption that I have held is the idea that I have to be perfect. Throughout high school, I thought that I had to be perfect. I took a lot of AP classes, joined clubs, participated in extracurricular activities, and joined honor societies. I wanted to do everything I could to make sure that I got into the best universities. I didn’t attend school functions because I wanted to study and make sure my work was perfect. In high school my definition of perfect was this girl who was the top of my class all four years of high school, she made straight A’s all throughout high school, and took all the AP classes offered at our school. I thought that in order to be perfect I had to do what she did: and that’s exactly what I did. However, things didn’t go as planned. I took all the advanced classes but I didn’t excel in them. I made B’s in some of my AP classes and I thought that in order to be perfect I had to make straight A’s. Every time I made a B I would cry my eyes out because I knew that no school would want me if I made anything below an A. Additionally, I thought that since I was ranked eleventh in my class that I wasn’t good enough because perfect was first. Perfect couldn’t imagine being second, so eleventh was on heard of. Being eleventh was heartbreaking, I …show more content…

Perfection is striving to be the best that you can be, falling and getting back up, and using your failures as a way to succeed. I didn’t have to be number one in my class, make straight A’s, and join a lot of clubs that I wasn’t interested in I had to just be me. I am not saying that I did all that work for no reason? No, I think focusing on school has made me who I am today: determined, focused, goal-oriented. Do I regret not participating in school events? Yes, I regret not going to the football games, basketball games, and any other sports events in high

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