Grades

I'm a perfectionist. I want to get straight A's. Everytime I open veracross, I close my eyes, and slowly open, them, hoping none of my grades have dropped to a B. In the asian society, grades mean basically everything. To get a B is absolutely unacceptable. Well, not absolutely, but its enough to depress someone for days. For example, when I learned that I'm probably going to get a B for PE, I was absolutely down for the rest of the day. When we lost that one softball game which cost us the A, I felt like crying. And it sucked. Most of my team were really depressed. We tried our very best, but we still couldn't win. It's horrible being a loser. No one ever remembers the 'second place'. This is my life's motto. I have to be first, because no one cares about who is second. Does anyone remember who the second person to land on the moon is? No. Well, actually I do, but that's a different case. (By the way, the second person to land on the moon is Buzz Aldrin). Sometimes, I think I care about my grades too much, but I know that if I don't push myself, I won't be able to achieve the best that I could have done. I want to prove to people that I can change the world. I want to change the world. I want to go to a good college, and get a good job. But I'm not doing this for me. When I was younger, I used to tell my mom that I didn't have to be rich, and that I'd be happy, like from doing charity work. But my mom told me something that I will never forget: Money can't give you everything, but without money, you get nothing. This is a chinese proverb. Since then I've learned, that to change the world and help those in need, I need to first gain money and power. With money, I can provide more help to those in need, than if I didn't have money. This is my motivation of getting good grades. I don't care if I don't live a rich life with luxurious items. I couldn't care less if I didn't have the best products in my future life. All I care about is to help the people who actually need the money more than I do, and to help out animals and to save the earth. My motivation for working hard is that since I've been born to this world, and that so much resources have been wasted on me, why shouldn't I do something and repay our earth? It is everyone's responsibility to do their best to help our planet. Even though many people couldn't care less, I know that if I've done my part, and tried to persuade others to do the same, than I've tried my best and will have no regrets.