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Saturday, June 21, 2003

Re: Exams suck. They really do.

Reading Rachel's entry made me wish someone had told me that when I was seventeen. No one did and if they had I think I would have tried my hardest to believe them. Everyone was telling me "exams are what is important" in one way or other. I didn't want that to be so but back then I didn't have the strength to believe myself when I was disagreeing with everyone. Now I do; and I also know there are more things to life than exams and getting into university. I still feel slightly guilty for saying it and that goes to show something, but I deeply believe that it's those other things that matter the most, really.

Maybe we should tell every 17-year-old kid we meet that. It might make a difference. Maybe one day they'll be posting on their blog about it.

Rachel's post also made me remember a conversation I had with my mum in front of an open window during the very first minutes of 1998.
- Happy New Year! This is going to be your year...
- For god's shake, don't you say that too!! It's just some bloody exams!
I hated them to be what defined my year... As if having to take them wasn't enough...
- I didn't say it because of the exams. It could be your year because you find a boyfriend. Or because you move out.
I didn't believe her. I thought she was just trying to cover up for what she had just said. And maybe she was indeed...

By the end of the year I had found a boyfriend and I had moved out.

Posted by Dimitra Daisy