So life has been going pretty well lately. My stress week has finally past, and my car wash made $150 (!!) and I finally lost some weight!! Woot for life. And the other day, I got my ACT scores back (finally), I got a 32!!, which doesn’t sound impressive, but since I am in the top one percentile and the top score is 36, I’d say I did pretty good. I was feeling pretty good about myself, until I talked to a couple of my friends. One friend told me that he got a 35 on his ACT, and that his lowest subject score was the same as my top subject score. (The ACT has four separate scores that are then used to find the composite score. The highest score for all of them is 36.) My other friend said that she had lost ten pounds and still wanted to lose more (and she is skinny!). Another one tells me that $150 dollars is only a fourth of what we need and another reminds me that I still have my Extended Essay (an IB thing), IB winter commentaries, SAT subject tests, and All Region to prepare for. So that elation I had been feeling was destroyed in like a day. But I guess that’s a good thing, otherwise I wouldn’t be worrying about practicing, studying, reading, researching, or even working out right now. So even though talking to people can really deflate one’s mood, I guess it’s necessary for us to function properly.
If knowledge is power and ignorance is bliss…
Then are the weak happy?
