To The Girl Who Tries Too Hard to be Perfect.
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To The Girl Who Tries Too Hard to be Perfect.

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Perfect- having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be.

In every sense of the word, it is something we all strive for and aspire to be.

Even though, No one in anyway is perfect by any means.

Trying to be perfect, or attempting in every way is so exhausting.

Throughout my life, I have never really attempted to try to be perfect in everything.

But in college, I have noticed myself pushing way too hard to fit this mold that I have set for myself to be.

I have pushed myself to not be the girl I was in high school; the one who didn't really care and was just skating along as my grades suffered in the process.

I have noticed exhausting myself, just to be perfect by everyone's standards: to have the best gpa, best grades, to be the best I can be in everything.

I find myself trying to make up for lost time and everything I wish I would've done in high school.

For the longest time, all I wanted was to just hear the words I am proud of you.

I noticed when I started pushing myself so hard that people would tell me it all the time.

Yet, I still found myself pushing myself harder than I should be.

I am like girl stop! But still kept pushing so I didn't have to later in the future.

People would tell me that I need to relax and I would tell them no, that I wasn't trying my hardest to be the best I could be.

To reach my full potential, I saw myself knowing I could get there

Let me tell ya something, stressing yourself out to the point of being sick is definitely not a good thing.

It's honestly probably going to work out in the long run, because I've noticed it always does.

Something I am learning, is definitely to breathe and to stop trying to push myself to a point that I know I don't need to.

I am learning that I don't have to strive to perfect when being perfect doesn't exist.

But to just try my best and take care of myself in the times I really need to.

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