What does Failure Mean To You?
‘Tis is the season of exams. Yet, like it or not, the ultimate outcome is either pass or FAIL. Failure means you have not succeeded in clearing your papers to move forward to another semester.
Yet, that is not the end of the days, my friends. Before I write out what failure is, let me tell you what failure in exams is NOT. Failure in exams does NOT mean failure in life. It merely means that you probably lack of luck/understanding in the subject/hard work. Take a while and ponder over yourself-ask yourself deep inside your heart, have you really put in your best effort? If you have, then please do not feel useless or helpless; for failure is just another process of life.
In studies, what is of utmost importance, (to me at least), is the ATTITUDE. You may be really smart and you do not need to study a lot; yet if you have this wrong attitude about learning, I do not respect you. However, if you have NOT been one who disrespect lecturers by talking in class, absent in class for no valid reason, been putting your heart in learning, and yet in the end, you failed- you are NOT to be ashamed of yourself. Because you have given your best and sometimes, we all have things to learn from failure. Perhaps the study method went wrong? Perhaps the wrong technique in answering exams questions? BE A FIGHTER, do a post-mortem, reflect on your past, and work for your goal; for we are all here FOR YOU, supporting you.
‘The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather the lack of WILL’
Since I am surrounded my medical friends and the killer bpharm friends, we all know that the academic road ahead of us is NOT smooth-sailing. Like Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong said, ‘nothing is easy if it is worth your while’. It is ok to break down to cry, for I have been there, done that. In fact, I had a worse experience than failing exams. I still remember how I was touched my what my best friend,ml said. She is a fighter, for she never gave up though her effort wasn’t exactly paid off. She could think of failure in exams (she didn’t fail, just that it didn’t get her her course of choice) in a +ve way. She enpowered me to be strong in my helpless moments.
After the letting-out of emotions, it is time to pick yourself up and fight =) For the only one who can truly help yourself, is nobody else but Y-O-U.
For those stressed because of exams, I bet you all know that stressed is DESSERTS spelt backwards. Life’s ironny huh? Just another example to show that 2 extreme things may just be separated by a fine line. Go get yourself some nice desserts if you feel stressed may be, I know a best friend of mine loves to munch on chocs when she is stressed studying. All the best to all my dear friends out there who are going to have exams/re-sits =)
