By Jan Vicente B. Pekas
A piece of paper can scare anyone out of their wits. For students, the exam papers are classic monsters that keep them on their toes all semester long. When the date is set, its footsteps can be heard louder each passing day. The impressive amount of questions can make anyone sweat, but wide spaces left for essay questions can drive anyone over the edge.
Tests are enjoyed by few and feared by many. Though we each have our own unique quirks that get us to enjoy certain types of exams over the others. The feeling of triumph as we submit these nightmare inducing papers is a feeling like no other, and often leads to liquor most of the time. Its always good to wind down after a week of panicking and rushing through semester long materials to review for an exam the next day. Exam weeks always manage to push us through the next level, standards are raised every new one, and we come out battle hardened every time.
Each year brings a set of new tests both inside and outside our classrooms or work places. An accumulation of hard work pierces through any test life may bring, and failure gives us a thicker skin to continue pushing through. Stubborn ambition, from our own experience, eventually gives us the rewards we so longingly yearn. After all, hands with calluses can carry more weight than ones with smooth baby-like skin. Having a character that is always persevering is something to be admired. We all chase something in life, whether it be an on-time graduation or deadlines every week, there are too many things that make it too easy to give up. A stubborn head is all the more needed when life moves too fast and goals seem to be getting farther and farther away.
Regarding the sudden surge of traffic we may experience in the coming days, stubbornness can actually be a good thing for once. Heavy traffic on a hot day makes it too easy to turn back and go on home instead. Yet, we can be a bit stubborn and continue to make steps toward our dreams and goals. We can be stubborn enough to
persevere through impossible tests or late night studying.
Walking out a room after taking a test, we come out a different person. Effort put in will do wonders. The place of our dreams come closer, or we come out with the acceptance of defeat.
Those exam papers can terrify anyone and beat the mind into submission, but the absence of dreams leaves our lives to become anything but a life.
A stubborn head will make a strict mom hit it when it is young. An ambitious and stubborn dreamer on the other hand can shake off any setbacks just as it shook of all those hits from mom.
Regardless of results, good or bad, as long as there is something pulling us forward, we can continue to move forward and shake off any doubts and persevere.**
