Love-Hate Relationship

I have a real love-hate relationship with exams. One day, I despise the very existence of it and curse it to hell. For it is the bane of every student. The next moment, I fall deeply in love with it. For its very existence gives purpose to so many empty lives. Including mine.

Like a pendulum, I would spend many days swinging between mood extremities, caught up in the typical fickleness of a gemini. But then, on exam eve itself, I would suddenly find the strength to revise and sum up for the next day's paper(s), and the night itself my whole body springs to life, in excitement and in anticipation.

What will tomorrow's paper be like? I wonder. What challenges lie ahead?

In just a few hours, I would find out the answer, and my head spins from the nervousness and anticipation. Patience, inner voice, patience.

Pop singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, in his Majikat concert (Earth Tour 1976), commented to his listeners that many middle-aged people are going back to school. He chuckles, "I mean, what else is there to do?"

Think about it: If this education system were not made mandatory, how would you be living your life instead?

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