Pwnage or Epic Fail

That is how things seem to be nowadays. Everything is either "Oh, I pwn3d that!" or "Epic fail..." There is no in-between, no happy medium. Everything is all or nothing now, and quite frankly, I do not like it, especially considering the standards that I set for myself. I got an 85% on a research paper that I wrote last year, one that I was rather proud of. 85% is a B, which is above average. But of course, I took it as an epic fail, not an "Oh, I did rather well." I didn't want anything to do with a B. Had I gotten a 90%, however, I would have "pwn3d" the assignment. I think that as a society, we would do better to know that there is a grey area in the things that you do and accomplish, and it is okay to be in the grey area sometimes. Not everything needs to be all or nothing. I always feel obliged to do one or the other. I don't like to take on things if I'm not sure that I can whole-heartedly succeed at them. I can also conclude that as a society, we are afraid to fail, and therefore people do less, just so they do not "epic fail." I think to better ourselves as a society, we need to have a spectrum of ways to acknowledge things that are done, rather than have something be perfect, or worth crap.