Every day in our lives, we want to be perfect to please others. No matter how hard we try, if we don't achieve the concept of being perfect, we will feel like failures. For example, every year at the Olympics, a newly crowned Olympic champion receiving a gold medal convinces young athletes to care about winning a medal in every competition they enter. If they don't win a medal in a certain competition, all their hopes for the next competition are gone. This action shows how if we do not strive to emulate the achievements of others, we will not distinguish ourselves from the rest of our population. In "Suicide Note" composed by Janice Mirikitani, Mirkitani describes the speaker as a college student who kills himself after failing to receive a perfect grade point average. When people look at her body lying on a blanket of snow, they perceive that her suicide is due to her inability to become perfect. However, in a deeper meaning, suicide symbolizes his inability to realize the concepts of family love, hard work and happiness. To begin with, when the person talking about Mirkitani experiences the stress of his parents as a daughter, he deals with it as if he were a son in the family. The speaker describes herself as “if only [she] were a son,…, she would see the light reflected in [her] mother's eyes or the golden pride reflected in [her] father's dreams (lines 10, 12 -14)." Mirkitani's use of the word “son” reflects the speaker's failure to recognize her parents' familial love as a daughter. Of note, she misinterprets that her parents adore her as an individual, and not whether she is a son or daughter. Familial love teaches the speaker that the university represents her parents' "light" and "golden pride" for the... middle of paper ......she resents her failure to recognize herself as an individual. His actions of comparing himself as a son in his family, failing to recognize the importance of hard work, and discovering his own happiness symbolize a person who fails to recognize that perfection is not as important as being satisfied with one's accomplishments in attending college , passing all the lessons and receiving family support. To point out, if the speaker had realized that getting a perfect grade point average is not what defines her as a person, then she would have understood that grades are just progress to motivate her to not give up on herself. Therefore, if the speaker wishes to find his personal satisfaction, he should consider all the hard work he has accomplished in his classes and understand that life is not just about getting a perfect grade point average and perfection..