Meg darling, you know what this post makes me think? Many of the things you label failures are successes in different ways, your standards for success are just so high. It's hard to see from so close, but the classes you only made B- in despite all the work, compared to the classes you made As in without trying? Both successes. You completed and learned from both. Being good but average at something is not a failure. Barely getting through something with a huge amount of effort is a SUCCESS. I consider my worst grade in college, in a hard math class, worth much more pride than my best grade, in an easy geology class, just because I had to work for it so much more. It's only rating yourself on a 4.0 grading scale that makes it look like any less of a success.
And things like the AIDS concert? Not a failure. A disappointment out of your control. You've really done a lot of awesome things, and succeeded at most of them, you just don't see it at this point. But maybe a few years from now you will look back and think, "Wow, I kicked ASS," the way your friends do about you.
(Also, me doing all the work in chem while you played with chemicals and you miraculously making 95% on the tests? Pfft. Please. You were one of the few class partners I had in all of school who DIDN'T make me do all the work, because you knew what was going on.)
And things like the AIDS concert? Not a failure. A disappointment out of your control. You've really done a lot of awesome things, and succeeded at most of them, you just don't see it at this point. But maybe a few years from now you will look back and think, "Wow, I kicked ASS," the way your friends do about you.
(Also, me doing all the work in chem while you played with chemicals and you miraculously making 95% on the tests? Pfft. Please. You were one of the few class partners I had in all of school who DIDN'T make me do all the work, because you knew what was going on.)
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