Monday, January 15, 2007

How to get over a disappointing failure

Greetings,

Due to sheer laziness followed by a bout of extreme inactivity, I was unable to post a blog for more than a month! And hence, I apologize to Kunal and Anamika (they are the ones, who have commented on my previous post) for not catering to your vouyeristic pleasures...
And I apologize again for the cheesy sentence on vouyerism.
I apologize and seek pardons almost everytime I speak to someone. That is because I almost always end up annoying everyone I speak to! It goes without saying that I am a moron with manners!
Coming back to the title, I would firsly enlighten you about my failure. I got a miserable, measly, condescendingly low percentile of 72.76 in CAT. As almost every student in India is aware of CAT, I wouldnt go beyond saying that CAT is an acronym for Common Aptitude Test which is conducted by the Indian Institutes Of Management.
Around 1,95,000 students,competing for 1,300 seats, attempted this exam which was held on November 19, 2006. This test contained 75 questions with 4 marks for each correct answer and a negative score of 1 mark for each incorrect answer. The CAT question paper had a couple of errors, but was otherwise, CRACKABLE!
The DI and Quant sections were comparitively easier than the Vocabulary section. And this observation comes from your's truly who was acing the Vocab section in the MOCK CAT papers but was getting butt-raped (sorry for the profanity) in the other tw0 sections.
But alas, I yet again failed myself by not being able to clear yet another enterance exam ( I couldnt clear AIEEE 2004, an enterance exam held by Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in the same year for an integrated course in Engineering & Management).
I also failed to clear NMAT 2006 and SNAP 2006.
However, considering the fact that I attempted CAT 2006 without serious preparations as it was held right in between my University Exams, reminding myself that I was the Chair Person of my college festival and nagged by a knack to lose victory to the jaws of defeat, I accepted failure as a man would. The fact that I failed to secure a minimum of 90 percentile in CAT pained me incessantly. It seemed that the goal which I wanted to achieve is unreachable.
However, I realized that failure is just another way of God telling man that "Son, you can do better. As I want to bring out the best in you, it was predestined for you to fail. Remember, a man who has failed will never fear failure. But a man who has never failed will always fear failure. Make better use of the opportunities which are coming your way. You will surely do well"
The words typed above has surely inspired me to do well. I hope the next time I type about an opportunity, it will be about an opportunity which I have succeded to get.

P.S. -> Seriously, I did not want to type out such a serious blog, it reminds me of an essay which I wrote in the third standard. Anyways, to make u guyz feel better, here is a small limerick I composed :

plz lie, plz booze,
plz have sex, and have the right to choose.

plz cry, plz die,
and den lemme give u a high-five!

I hope this pathetic limerick has succeded in bringing a faint smile in your lips.
Adios for now!
(This is what u must be thinking ->Thank God, this dude finished typing out this blog, it almost made me vomit! Y!?..Y?!...did i read his blog?!...)


P.P.S -> Ignore all what I have typed above, remember a decent dose of humour is all what you need to get over failure. Cheers!. And yeah...better work hard the next time! ;)