School and Results....an equation or an inequality ?

Education.....a pursuit of academia or a journey to find one's true self ?

After the release of this year's O-levels results...the usual clamouring of the brightest young minds adorn the front pages and hogged the limelight....yet this time....there was a certain passive pride swelling within me. Nope. I did not retook my O-levels...and even then...I would never be associated with being seen as the cream of crop or the top x% of the cohort. Instead, I felt immense pride that my alma mater produced 12 students(if I remember correctly from the papers) who scored at least 9A1s....a truly remarkable feat. Further....that special segment I caught on TV devoted on this extraordinary result certainly roused a bout of nostalgia as it interviewed and filmed from the very vicinity of the place I once spent 11 years of my school life in....though I must say much has changed as compared to how I remembered it to be. Perhaps it is indeed such moments that I feel wearing that little green shorts is not such a bad idea after all....

Academic results matter yet so is finding what one truly wants to do with his life. I would not say I am absolved of guilt in my academic pursuit....yet perhaps just as a note to those who tried and yet not meet their expectations....life goes beyond what one sees before him. I too shared that anguish and pain of failing...but I believed in the reasons for my failures....hopefully to treat it as a platform to spur oneself onto greater heights.

Life goes on....