Exams

Today,

When I saw that tear trickle down her face,

I realised

Even the strongest

Most optimistic people

Have clouds looming above their head.

The worst thing isn't the disappointment

But living in fear about disappointing someone who has high hopes upon yourself.

Today's exam made me wonder

If I was wasting every single resource given to me.

I couldn't benefit nor make a profit from all those resources

So was I wasting them?

I'm sick of the way exams make you feel

I'm sick of the way people judge you based on exams.

If you're from a better grade,

You're most likely a better person,

If you get low grades,

They judge your character.

Shake their head at your results like they've been living their whole life with you.

You say

"Look at all the successful people"

Well,

From what I can see

Is that all the teachers never gave a fuck about them

And treated them like shit during their school days.

Well darling,

Exams aren't real.

They're a virture life you live in.

Real tests, are tests which test your ability

And not test your strenght in memorising nor technique in answering.

"Everybody tries to copy in an exam,

Not knowing that everybody's questions are different"

Well,

"Everybody tries to strive their best in exams,

They neglect their health

By staying up late just to perfect that score."

"Everybody tries to strive their best in exams,

They torture their body by taking excessive caffeine to stay up or skipping meals just for more time to study"

"Everybody tries to strive their best in exams, 

I believe,

Everybody who has a goal in life,

Tries their best to study,

But are marks that important in life"

A real test,

Is where there is no final answer.

The outcome is important,

But the method of approaching the problems,

The prepration,

The attitude you have while facing reality.

A real test,

Isn't in fact the exam

The real exam,

Is your attitude towards every exam.

And I wonder,

How many have actually failed this real exam.