You can’t be a Straight A student in life, so pick 3

I was a “strive to be Straight A student.” I say strive to be, because in reality, I was a “mostly A’s, but a B’s here and there” student.

In short, I was a failing perfectionist. And that’s its own kind of disaster. You want to be perfect, but you aren’t, so you’re always failing because only 100% is acceptable. You never achieve “good enough” because “good enough” doesn’t exist; just perfection. And you are never perfect. What a way to live!

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