As I go through the days, counting off one by one, I was scared. Terribly depressed as I knew I am not prepared at all for the mid-course assessment. I didn't know the reason why, but it just seems like 24 hours of mine squeeze through tiny slits and vanish into air despite how hard I tried to grab.
Is it because I have a person to talk with in the room? Does it really make a difference? I don't know. Trying to stay as optimistic as I can, but it just seems so hard.
Then it comes with the usual routine again, studying non-stop, skipping slides, targeting questions with my intuition. Then Friday came, with me sitting beside a person I used to knew so well. Distractions and distractions. Stress and stress in the house. I dislike people focusing on me. Probably because I really wanted to be invisible.
But deep down in the core, I knew I wasn't. I want to be the best, be the great! Be the one when people thought of my name, they will first associate it with my achievements. I want to be, then it comes the fear of failure, the fear of not being good enough. Then my brain stop accelerating, my heart complaining and I don't know how to restart it. I just don't know how. Then I screw up my test, felt so depressing, felt so tiny and inferior. All I wanted to do is just cry and hide myself down the blanket.
Well, every sad story has a turning point. Then it comes so perfectly well with real steel. Have not watched that show yet? You might want to considered booking it now and watch it real quick. It's seem like just another story, but the messages I received when I was sitting on the couch was incredibly inspiring. Yes, the thing that keep me going till now was none other but my determination, perseverance and courage. Sometimes, i thank God for my blur-ness because of that I am always quite slow in picking up things, I am always too slow to quit, then I just have to keep going. Maybe that's the only thing I am good with.
I soon realized that I am the great Sin Toun not because I am super smart or genius. It's just because I stick longer than others to problems, to questions, to what I wanted to be. It's just that I am so scared and so fear of failing off because I was on top of the hill for so long that I forgot that I need to keep myself down to earth. (There's the reason I changed my blog title too) I want to remind myself to be humble, to keep myself low profile, to be empty. I wasn't.
I thought I was so freaking smart. Not studying every single day, procrastinating, studying last minutes, hold on to my so-called intuition and more often, not finishing my slides? Like WTH! And I keep convincing myself that it is going to work somehow every time, because you see I am quite smart? WTH, Loh Sin Toun!
So, you still have like one week to make it happen! I want you to be the best of yourself, not others. You keep going, that's the point. You keep trying until the end of your life. Well, you might not be the ultimate winner at the end, but at least you have tried your best and there's no regrets. Go, Toun! I always believe you are great and you can do it!
Give yourself a big hug and thanks yourselves for working so hard for the past 2 years, now you are going to continue the hard works, grabbing those dean lists and make the best out of you.
Ignore the others. For what they're trying to do, trying to pull you down. You ain't going down, you're always down to earth. Stays foolish, stays hungry.
I know you can.
Sin Toun