I selected this story because I can relate to it. JIll has to have everything perfect because it makes her feel in control of what is around her. I learned that one can do their best at anything when they try but can’t always be perfect. And when you try to be perfect every second of every day it can get very stressful. Little do some people know that not everything you do will be flawless. Jill is a perfectionist. She always has to do everything perfect or as close to perfect as she can possibly get it to be. She had a method for everything. This allowed her to do things relatively efficient, but it had its down sides. Since she had to have everything practically flawless she would go nuts if someone did something not up to her expectations. …show more content…
She used to be like any other kid, making mistakes, having things out of order and messy. Soon things had changed for her. After she had to always drop everything and keep moving to different places due to her father’s job. With this constant shift in environments her life felt rather was unstable so she resorted to thinking logical and orderly to add some stability to her life. So it was basically like a coping system. Has I read the story “Pancakes” I found that I was able to easily relate to the character Jill. When I was at the age of seven my parents got divorced. Life was so different than what it had be, so unsteady that I poured myself into school. My home life wasn’t that happy or extraordinary as some kids. So I made sure that I could make everything in my life as perfect as I possibly could, so I could fill crevices in my life. To make my life more structured and stable. I have always thought being a perfectionist would be the most efficient way to live life. I never thought about how much stress it could put on a person until reading this story. As I got older do this got more and more stressful with the weight of countless problems on my shoulders, kind of like Jill on page 202, “I was falling down a dark, disorderly tunnel. There was no end in sight… The only consolation was that I wouldn’t live till noon.” She had so much stress that she was practically giving