Daughter had her regional cross country meet (District champs two years running) yesterday.
The team placed 5th out of 25ish teams. Top four advance to the state meet, so they missed out on that.
After the meet, she was bawling her eyes out because two members of the fourth team finished just ahead of her. I tried to explain how the scoring works and that if she had passed them, it wouldn't have changed the results in the final tally. I know, its not about facts and logic. I also hugged her and said I was proud of her (she PRed). Still full of drama and angst this morning.
However...
36 hours later, she's over it. On the way home earlier she told me her plan to win homecoming queen her senior year (she a soph this year): Make friends with all the freshman at the beginning of year, instead of ignoring them for two months and then trying to get their vote the week of homecoming.