Exams and results go hand in hand, exams are hectic, but results are frantic. I still remember my sleepless nights before results, however I hardly remember any sleepless nights during exams. Well may be because it’s human tendency to encounter tensions not while doing a task but before facing the consequences of that task.
Be it a child’s result or that of a PhD acquired person, the tension felt by both is similar and these are my words of experience. I do remember my elementary school days, I loved my school I enjoyed going school, meeting friends and learning new things, however my school dread me like hell during the result days, whatever the result may be few days before the result, especially the last night and few hours before the open day stressed me like hell. Similar was the case when I was in High School, on the contrary I remember once the result stress made me sick, my parents had to collect my report card from the school and I was lying on the bed with flu and tension. I don’t know what really made me worry so much about the results but even if today I am asked to sit for any exam, my result stress wouldn’t change.
My friends denoted exams as monster; however I would denote results as monster. It is not easy to survive in such fearful circumstances. My friends Lily usually laughed at me while I use to get blue with result fear. Meanwhile, with time I found some measures to minimize the result stress. Meditation and several other measures did minimize my result tension, however some things remain constant.
Meditation, diversion of mind, breathing exercises; god knows what all I actually tried to come out of the result stress, but I think it still prevails in me somewhere back of my mind. It is said that life is an exam, this statement stress me too just because exams brings results with him.
Result stresss almost everyone, some like me worry a lot about result while some worry a bit, but results have the capability to affect everyone’s mind. Be a scholar or a duffer both sail in the same boat before their result day. Scholar is worried about percentage and duffer is worried about his passing marks. But the stress and fear both experience is the same. The result day is regarded as the judgment. The day is as if is going to decide their life and death.