Dear Shade343,
Lemme try & lift ur spirits, by sharing u the true life story
of a "failure". This failure dropped out of VJC after Year 1, then
bummed ard & worked in various temp jobs for awhile. 1 day,
when all her frens got their A Level results & were whooping
wif joy & planning abt uni entrances, the failure woke up from
her idea, & realised tt she was missing out on all the fun in
planning for an edu, getting a degree, etc. She thot back to when
she excelled in school, qualifying for entrance into the top sec
school & how she'd let it all go to waste.
The failure then went to a private institution & obtained info
on all the private diploma courses. She studied as hard as she did
when she was younger, & obtained an overall Distinction grade.
Subsequently, she was accepted into a prettie gd uni in Oz.
She's a grad now, wif a stable job & a steady income, & has
done fine. She's Not by any means totally outstanding like
president scholars or those private bankers, but she has earned
herself her own respect, & tt of her parents, whom she
disappointed many yrs ago. Pple who haf wayward children ask her to
give encouragement to them & help them see all is Not
lost.
Sounds incredible? Shade, it's me. It's a true story, cosh it's my
life. I'd wasted time, but I've gained a measure of it back. All is
Not lost simply cosh u din get the best grades during ur O's. From
it, u can earn an experience, how to deal wif failure, how to cope
wif it, how to move on, & u become stronger.
I wldn't haf had the chance to make thgs better for myself if I'd
simply committed suicide. And the strength I had from
disappointments in the past has helped me deal wif tough working
life now : )
FeowFeow
