I am known for overextending myself and my agenda. I say yes to every opportunity put in front of me, and sometimes, it makes my life somewhat of a nightmare. I, like many college students, am a notorious overachiever. Although I love being busy, sometimes I wonder why the heck I signed up for so many clubs and opportunities. My fellow overachievers, here is a list of thoughts I am sure you have had at some point.
1. I cannot even fit all of these activities onto my resume.
They say your resume is only supposed to be a page long when you are in college, but did they account for the overachievers? Now I have to choose which clubs are more important or it is going to go on way past the one page limit.
2. Oh, a running club! I should definitely join that.
Why would I not join a club that helps me get fit? I can fit it in somewhere in my schedule. At least, I think I can. Maybe I can be an honorary member, where I do not actually make it to the meetings but the members know who I am. Maybe I do not even have to run to be in the club. Then I get the resume building without having to run.
3. I have color coded my entire planner and I still do not have any idea what is going on.
It will probably take me a few minutes to decode my planner, but I can do this. I remember that purple meant Spanish and blue meant... wait, what did blue mean? Maybe I just need five separate planners so I do not have to cram so much in one tiny space..
4. At what point do I stop signing up for stuff?
At this point, I am not sure if I have a breaking point. You would think that after a while, this would be too much, but for some reason, I keep agreeing to things. Maybe I need someone to tell me I am insane. That could work.
5. What is this thing they call "Lazy Sunday?"
Everyone says they spend their Sundays watching Netflix and relaxing, but I spend it catching up on all of the things I am behind on. I wonder if it is nice to be lazy for one day. I should try it some time. I think maybe it would make me happy, but then everything would fall apart. I may never know what a lazy Sunday is.
6. I annoy myself when I talk about everything I am involved in.
I know that people hate hearing about everything I am involved in, because I hate having to make the list. They always give me the same reaction, because people think overachievers are weird. Even I think I am weird. I should just stop answering that question.
7. Overachieving leads to a surprisingly large number of assignments that I procrastinate.
There is not enough time in the day to get everything done. So while I am getting ahead on some things, I am inevitably forgetting about other things. There has got to be a way to schedule this better so I can get everything done without procrastinating, right?
8. What if I just did nothing for one day?
Maybe I should try to forget about everything I have to do for one day. I can take that lazy Sunday I have been waiting for and just give up for the day. This could either go very well or end in tragedy.
9. It is kind of nice to feel so accomplished.
Even though it is stressful to constantly be working on something, it is nice to know I have done so much. Sometimes I finish things that, at the beginning, did not even seem possible. It is moments like that when I realize that working hard is not always bad.
10. I will probably overachieve for the rest of my life and I am okay with that.
Some things will never change.
