WE and EXAMS.....

Learning and knowledge go alongside. We learn and gain knowledge everyday of our life! We face exams every second of our life! Be it a job, or college, or school, or our homes and relationships, we are always assessed & appraised!

Exams! Mine are over at least for now! The college one, I mean!! Being a renowned university student I had my share of fearing exams and even studies sometimes. But should we fear exams? Should we run away from that knowledge of wisdom? My friend had some time back said that life would have been easier & blissful if we didn't have exams!!

I sometimes try to imagine, whether life would have been that easier and blissful, if we didn't have exams?! What would have happened if we didn't learn anything? Our life would be standstill... We wouldn't move forward!

For us students, school and college exams were not heavenly! We were never happy with the question paper and the teachers were never happy with our answer sheets! And we were never content with our marks even! We wanted more! Wanting more is good!! Desiring more is always welcome but we should first be happy and content with what we have got! Anyways, Exams were never our best friends! Yes, past tense because I have learnt to love exams! Studies and exam were not my best friends! But if I enjoy those exams, I would love that college and school exams? With entrance exams, competitive exams, and God knows what exams, studies and exams nowadays are more than our little brains can cope with... Yet, still, should we not try enjoying??.............

One may say that jobs are always tough and hard-hitting when it comes to assessment and evaluation! The always judge and criticize and never praise! Well, as my friend has said, one has to learn to enjoy that review result!  One has to enjoy that work, whether it’s praise or analysis! So, in this way we face exams, but we always pass with flying colours at the end of the day!

I always had the thought that if my teacher’s told me how they wanted the answers in the answer scripts, how and what the examination board will assess for the allotted marks, it would have been more easy and blissful as my friend has said! Suppose, if we had an assigned class, where we were asked of our problems, what we wanted like marks or fewer syllabuses, and also taught how to write an answer which the assessment board will evaluate, would have been better! All that hard feelings wouldn't be there, the wrong methods would not be used!

Relationships are tricky! Here we expect more than we get! Here we want more than we gain! But a relationship should be watered with love not pricked with desires and wishes! Any relationship, when faced with troubles, would be asked why! So that we can rectify it and make that relationship strong and enjoyable! A relation exam needs care and attention, which we should give, if we want to sustain that relation!

Exams teach us how to live our life! With the hurdles and hardship we learn that optimism is the core of success… We learn that failures and difficulties are part of life which when enjoyed proves to be an achievement… An achievement of joy, happiness and wisdom… Ecstasy and contentment of doing what our hearts want… Knowledge and wisdom of following one’s own dreams and aims… Achieving that perfect dream…

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”