The Perfect Syndrome

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Another day.....stayed at work to study tonight. I enjoy the experiencing of learning, of challenging myself. I don't like to fail.... It's not that I mind not passing an exam, but I hate having other people know that I didn't pass. That's when I feel the pressure..that need to be perfect.

The old "everything is either perfect, or it's ruined." No in-between, no middle ground...Where did that come from? The truth is that we are always in a state of change. Sometimes for the good, sometimes for the better....We do the best we know how to do, and when we know better, we do better. So if Emerson is right, then our life is what ever we think it to be.