RESULTS AND RESPITE
L ife is beautiful, but not always easy. It
has problems as well, and the challenge
lies in facing them with courage,
letting the beauty of life act like a
balm, which makes the pain bearable,
during
trying times, by providing
hope.
Happiness and sorrow, victory and
defeat, day and night, all of these are
two sides of the same coin called life,
which is full of moments of joy,
pleasure,
success
and comfort,
punctuated
by
misery,
defeat,
failures and problems. Everyone has
their mood swings, and it is a
natural part of most people’s lives.
We get happy, and we get sad. We
have a point where we feel on top of the
world, and then later in the same day,
we feel tired, lethargic and beaten
down. Without help, it gets worse
instead of better.
Mood swings can be so bad, as to make
it impossible for us to go to class or
work, or hang out with friends or
spend quality family time.
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One such incident happened in my life,
where I had had terrible mood swings.
It was the end of our 3rd semester, and
each and every one of us had come to
college after a short vacation, back to
our busy routine. It was the 2nd week
of the 4th semester, and speculations of
results were doing their rounds.
On one such evening, when the AU
results had finally arrived after
refreshing the webpage a zillion times,
my mom found me crying in a corner
of the room, the reason being I had two
arrears in the subjects I had done fairly
well.
The days that followed were extremely
depressing. I somehow couldn’t accept
the fact I had failed. I had all my
anxiety bottled up, and one day, I
opened up to my mom, saying I had
lost hope that I would clear in the
revaluation and as I had imagined,
my results had no change. I applied
for another round of revaluation
popularly known as “Challenge”.