and we've already won

a simple thought to ponder, from one of my favorite professors. we were discussing some things the other day, because he loves to talk to people about things, everything from our actual projects to all of our life issues. he truly wants to get to know us. which is cool. i was extremely stressed about this project that i had just spent like a week and a half straight working on with hardly any sleep or food. it was great. not. but anyway so he gave me a pretty bad grade on it and i was freakin out cuz i just couldn't handle anymore stress. he just came up to me and said that it was okay to be angry, cuz thats what he wanted, and that those other people who didnt put in the work but got a better grade didnt matter cuz they wouldnt take away as much from the experience as i was going to and that it is more important that people know your work ethic and what you are capable of than the grade you got on a project because no one in the real world cares about your grades. this was quite a plateful. and it made me extremely upset at first because i was just like BUT NOBODY KNOWS THAT I DESERVED A BETTER GRADE OR THAT I WORKED REALLY HARD OR THAT YOU THINK IVE DONE GREAT THIS YEAR!!! ALL THEY KNOW IS THAT I GOT A D+ yea... A FREAKIN D+... THATS ALL!!! but as i sat thinking about this, knowing that it was all going to be okay since i was going to pass the class, i realized that this is actually a much better picture of reality than i had ever thought classes could be. In life, we all have really hard times and we all feel like we have trials that we are unable to handle and we all want to give up because weve tried so hard and have nothing to show for it. and alot of the time it seems like the world around us has everything so much better, and they dont have any problems like we do. but the thing is... theres more to life than having proof of what you've done in your life. having an "easy" life isnt going to help you grow at all, like all those moments when you've turned to God for guidance because you couldnt go on. He has taught us more in those most painful times, than any other in our lives and many people have not experienced this type of learning and growth. so its okay if we get upset or frustrated because He is teaching us to become better people. God knows who we are and He is helping us get through everything in our lives. He will neve giv us more than we can handle. grades dont matter.