I’ve my exams coming up in a week or so. Unlike others in my class I’m here blogging and more importantly NOT STUDYING! Everyone around is feeling the exam HEAT. Especially my mom!! I’ve told her more than a hundred times that exam is not EVERYTHING in LIFE. She’ll never listen. I’m in the commerce stream. Out of 4 subjects+2 languages, I’ve prepared only for my accountancy exam. So you can imagine the amount of pressure my mom TRIES to put on me. When I don’t like Mathematics why am I forced to do it? I’m not an emotional person but I literally broke down thinking how helpless I am. Mathematics is not my cup of tea. Very few mathematical concepts actually get into my head…others I just do it blindly. That’s not education, is it?
Why is it that everyone asks me to study? I can’t even take a walk in the evening coz everybody on the street asks me about my preparations for the exam. They care for me and they see potential in me. Is that the reason? Here arises another question – Is marks directly proportional to career? I hope not. I somehow don’t like people who study 24*7. I mean…I know my own classmates who score well don’t know to pronounce the simplest of words. Not that all are the same and not that I know everything but then what’s the use of studying if you don’t even understand what you are studying. I’m not a distinction holder. So be it! It’s not an insult to me. I still believe I can make it BIG in my LIFE. My parents don’t feel the same. Strange but fair enough. My mom the other day told me – “Study well and score well so that you can proudly show it to your kids”. Is that why you need to score good marks? You work hard a whole year studying those dry text books to get a wonderful marks card which might or might not help you? At the end of the day it’s just a paper (waste) which you exhibit to the whole world proudly. For me, substance matters! Knowledge matters! Intelligence matters! Application matters! That good for nothing small sheet of paper is not what matters to me. The only good thing about exams is that I get a little “extra” care and love from my parents. Even while writing this I’m eating all sorts of dry fruits. Hahaha!!
A week to go for my board exams and I’m not tensed. Trust me. There’s no pressure whatsoever. Now I’ve no option but study. I very much see myself achieving my goals even without scoring 90+ in my boards. The drive and the passion and the hunger in me are enough to LIVE my DREAMS. I'm posing off as if I would change the world by writing this article which not more than 10 people would read :D
Right now I’m listening to a song which is truly inspiring. My favourite lines in the song go like this –
kuch aisa karke dikha
khud khush ho jaaye khuda
I’m in love with these words. It’s so colourful and meaningful…
