Good Enough

24 in a few hours, but how much have I really achieved career-wise?

People were wrong when they told us to study hard in school, score perfect grades and to enter a reputable university. Confirm can get a good job, they said. Well, it's either they have a different definition of a "good job" or I heard wrongly.

The truth is, being the perfect student in school doesnt guarantee you the dream job. It doesnt earn you a million bucks, it doesnt guarantee that your relatives will be impressed with your choice of study. For what it is worth, it cant even guarantee you being happy.

So really, perfectionism is overrated.

Yet this desire to be perfect is the root to all my desires right now. I want to be the best, I want to be the most successful among my batchmates, I want to earn the most and I want to be the one most recognised. (Where did all this ego come from?!)

And sadly, this desire to be perfect is the root to all my misery right now. I want to be able to pursue my chambering. I want to be a lawyer. I want to do something meaningful in my life instead of chilling my days away in a comfortable office.

It is easy to say that my life is good enough. Not so easy to tell them good enough is not enough for someone who aims for the sky.

People say I should be satisfied; I should be grateful to have so much.

But it is not so easy to tell them that good enough is not enough, when you aimed for so much more.