Undergraduate / Life isn't always about being on top but it's about how you make it to be on top [11]

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"Are there any significant experiences you have had, accomplishments you have realized, that has helped define you as a person?"

Aristotle once verbally expressed, "Knowing oneself is the beginning of all sagaciousness." Thus, knowing oneself is the foundation of personal magnification, the commencement of an individual to fully acquire the essence of life. Being acquainted with yourself is not accomplished by merely visually examining your reflection as you stand in front of a full-length mirror, but is gradually acquired, as yourself, your very own mentor, teaches you every aspect of it.

Being in the middle of my teenage life, I could not disavow nor escape the fact that I am also in the middle of knowing myself and knowing the world. Knowing in a sense of learning through my challenges in life, achievements, failures and learning through my relationship with God and with others. Teenage life is indeed a tough part, for the reason that I get to visually perceive a clearer view of life - which is not about any of my infantile dreams and happy endings but it is about the reality that, without a doubt, it is a rollercoaster ride of muddled up sentiments, unreturned perplexities and caught up thrash abouts.

I find it hard to succumb to slumber, though the downpour of rain should've alleviated it. My insanity level roamed up high, misery went up to me, my hazelnut orbs turned red for crying, as I contemplate profoundly and once asked God. "Do you really play equality and fairness to all of your creation? If yes, then why can't you grant my desire, to be in the highest section of our school were I did my very best just to be in it?" It is indeed a blasphemous act to question God with such a preposterous reason, but I was in the agony of disappointment, lost in the labyrinth for I was puzzled. After some time, I promised to myself that I have something more to prove and took it as a challenge.

As a dynamic figure enrolled in a quaint educational institution, my life as a student doesn't differ from anyone. A hectic schedule, loads of exams, terror teachers and competitive classmates. To sum up all of these, it is what you call pressure but this doesn't hinder me from pursuing my personal goals. Through my perseverance and determination, I got promoted.

To encapsulate everything, I have come to a realization that life isn't always about being on top but it is about how you make it to be on top. Failure is indeed unequivocally inevitably ineluctable, but how you take it, is up to you. For me failures are just stones in my shoe, I pause for a while and remove them, but they don't hinder me from walking forward. If we contemplate the old verbal expression, "Is the cup half empty or half full?" which is an impeccable analogy of how we perceive and visually examine things. I learned that ups and downs are the ones that makes your life's journey more worthwhile. Every experience I encounter, may it be bad or good, plays an immensely colossal role in moulding my figure into a better one and helped me knowing myself. This may not be the pinnacle of knowing myself but with the help of my family, friends and especially God, sooner I will.

"Success is often the result of taking misstep in the right direction."