My Take on the Ordeal of Exams

There is nothing new about the struggle of making it through examinations, especially when you want to top. The pressure is on – from directions you never heard of from One Direction(haha I couldn’t resist); you are questioning your own existence on one of those countless sleepless nights ideally designed to lick pages endless. Time is betraying you in its progress and despondency has become a friend too familiar.

Despite having just barely made it the last time, you once more find yourself in the same rut reprimanding the indecision just once again.

You go over events from the year trying to make it seem worth the pain and conclude that it was. Hell yeah it was!

Your attention is ever wavering, looking from side to side to feed your exhausting inspiration in life. You find food. You find a pen. You find your blog. You find your friends trapped on the other side of the screen. Time is murdered on volition, is speeding slyly and divesting you of time to the deadline of smacking pages endless. You are distraught and disappointed in yourself for not being the Milkha Singh who bled to run, or the Mary Kom who defied conditions.

The ordeal has challenged you plenty times, yet in some elevated difficulty each.

You are doubting if you’d ever get through it with your sanity intact.

Well, know this: time will slip by you no matter what. How you wish to stand at its end is the only bridge you have to cross to reach that podium I know you want to own.

I wonder when I took to extending inspiration when all I wanted to say was “Exams are what I want my Blog to be most unlike”.

Let me explain my logic.

Exams test and promote the skill of memorization over understanding and hard work at routine over creativity. And unlike Exams, I want to be tested here on my true skill – of writing that is – unembellished by my ability to reach out efficiently and effectively (you probably realize I’m bad at it, which I most definitely am hence spinning myself an intricate reason in the comfort of continuing to be bad at it).

What my logic simply implies is that I will patiently wait  on this side to be noticed. And until that happens I will continue to type down my thoughts, each a day.

I officially skip the ordeal of exams that also test unrelated skills at promotion and creating an object of attraction of more than just words; and stick to my writing to save time and effort which will be successfully utilized to con my own Board Exams. 

Cheers!

#defyingmetaphoricalexams