Perfection on paper

[tibervalleygirl]

Perfection is impossible, yet applauded, in our meritocratic society, and the best is never quite good enough. You may have a 95% average, you may run track and play soccer, and you may volunteer in a soup kitchen every Thursday night and tutor under-served children on Sunday mornings, but you're still missing something. Yeah, your activities and

Comments

[carlettelemange]

Don't think I didn't catch the reference to my hating math and wanting to be a journalist. That has been my point all along. For some reason they expect each and everyone one of us to be able to be brilliant at absolutly everything all at once. It's not that it's so riddiculously impossible, its that if we all went dorwn this path it woul eliminate all specialization. We'd have streams of passionate people making thier lives about things they only half care about on a zippity-do-da type day. I hate math, so I did what they tap tap thinkers do and got it out of the way! This has led to minimal pain and suffering on the issue as my skills in math have been shunted to the side instead to favour things I don't suck at. I've managed to create my Resumé self in a way that actually depicts who I really am as a person. It's awesome. Bullshitting is a pain, but at least I still remember how to do long division.