Too Blessed to be Stressed

Have you heard that before? I really try to abide to that motto, but life's just too difficult. Things go wrong everyday! People have this expectation of me: they expect me to be PERFECT. Not going to lie, I am a perfectionist, but just to clarify, I am FAR from perfect. People expect so much from a single individual, it can become overwhelmingly hectic. With AP classes, directors (who like to play the dictator role), and with what seems to be unusual family problems...I feel like I'm going crazy. There's this "stay positive" thing that my teacher tells us to do. She tells us to say buts. So if you say something negative, you find a positive but about it. For instance, I did not sleep at all last night, because I stayed up writing a damned essay about Grendel, but I got a 95 on it. Although that is a great strategy, sometimes I can't find buts, and that just really makes the whole situation worse. I hate that.