Cause and Effect

Cause and Effect

The past two days have been bittersweet for each of us I guess. After all, every single thing that we do in our lives will unfailingly come back and end up nipping us in the... erm... hiney. In this case, that'd be the exams. Yes, guys, the exams. The havoc wrecked in your minds the past few marking days may have removed all traces of bad memories, but they never go away just like that. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, every cause will lead to an effect.

I'll skip the going-through exams part. We all know what it was like:

"Shit, I got 79 only."

"How many hundred you got?"

"Eh I passed leh. Want go buy 4D?"

"Eh how much you got?" "You don't want to know lah..." "Just tell me lah, what you scared of?" "Err... 84." "Walao why you so like that one?" "Tell you you don't want to know liao!"

Bitter indeed.

I flopped both Maths, got a little disappointed with Physics, Bio and LA, shocked that I passed Chem, wasn't too surprised at HCL and realised how God can work in such mysterious ways in History. Overall? I feel indifferent yet satisfied.

I've long gotten over the times where marks haunted my every though in the last quarter of the year. "It's not worth it" was the conclusion I came to after a few days of sulking. After all, in a few months time, the most probable thing that'll happen is that I'll look back, remember my marks and laugh it off. There's nothing to bother me except a few numbers that others share too - It's not a divine prediction of your future.

No, this post isn't really for me, but for those who still that tang of annoyance or are fully concentrated on that possible C,D or F appearing in their report book next week. It's one thing to take your exams seriously, its another to let it take you over. Don't lose sight of other aspects of school, other aspects of life. I failed Maths 2, but I don't see people in the streets holding signs saying "DOOMSDAY IS COMING, REPENT STUDY BEFORE ITS TOO LATE".

So take the holidays to relax, recuperate, restore those heavily abused gray matter. It's a time to have fun and feed our minds and souls for a change, with your CCAs, outings with friends, and stopping2think blogposts. Be ready for the next year. Remember that the grade is not a death sentence - it's an alarm clock ringing for your next year paper.

And don't you dare hit the snooze button after your 2 month nap.