text: perfectionism or right-fully upset? i got a b in enhanced differential equations, an honors class at uconn. i graduated a year early with a 4.0 and had always done everything perfectly and had never really been faced with anything that i just couldn't do. i invented integration techniques back in calculus 1. so i got to college by the age of 17 and i took enhanced differential equations. i put my sweat, blood, and tears into getting an a in that class, but i just couldn't do it. it left me with a gigantic b-shaped crater in my self esteem, a b, a mocking visualization of my complete and utter failure despite rediculus (not exagerated) effort. i haven't gotten a b since i was 13 and at a school i didn't think was good enough for me none the less (i can't afford much else, but i could have done better). it wouldn't have been so bad if i had slacked and gotten a b but i put my life into that class, going to often rediculus lengths of studying but my effort got me no where. am i crazy, or do i have a right to be upset? you are not crazy yet, but if you keep thinking that you have to be perfect one day you will be crazy. perfection is for god and you are not. just look at it like this. you did everything you could but it didn't happend the way you wanted, but at least you got the chance to try. do you know how many doesn't even get the chance or have the intelligence to do or acheive what you have? besides a grade is one moments classification. you have your whole life to prove that you are better than that b if that is your concern. it would feel better not to think that you are perfect but that you are human and that as one it is more probable that you will make a mistake at one point in life. some will be worst than others but they are all mistakes. but if we put our trust in the one who is perfect we will be blessed with his perfection and kindness. so for the next time instead of putting your faith in yourself and your efforts just put it in god and you will see and experience his perfection in what you do. god bless.