Do you enjoy playgrounds? I do, especially on
swings. Cause
I get to fly up so high and touch the sky.
But, I always have a hard time swinging and pushing myself high enough.
I can never win a "who swings higher" competition. I see people swing up so high, and I always needed someone to push me to swing as high. I could never swing my legs enough.
Today, was a pretty rough day. I got mentally slapped twice in a row. My horrible results led me to a depression for a moment.
I was nearly in tears when I saw my Science results. I was wondering how could I have done so badly. I remembered putting alot of effort for Science. I was quite sure I was at least going to B it. I got a C.
And I got advices saying,
"You'll do better next term."
I've heard that before last year.
I didn't do any better.
Maybe I didnt put as much effort as the exam needed me to have.
I came home and showered and decided to go to the
park.
I sat on the swing, just swinging a little, soon I felt that I could reach the sky. I was quite pleased with myself.
I pushed myself harder. I felt that wonderful breeze that brushed my face, it felt wonderful.
I was close up to the sky.
I walked home and thought to myself,
"hey, maybe one day, i'll actually touch the sky"
If I push myself harder next time, yeah perhaps, I might actually ace something.
I felt happier as I walked home, I smiled, genuinely.
Not that I dont, when I smile at you people.
Its just, I felt different, though my results were horrible I felt and I knew that I would touch the sky one day.
I knew it.
Sometimes, I feel that, i'm actually quite
independent.
Cause I am able to make myself feel better without anyone.
All the time, when my parents ask me for my results, I
never actually hear a "I'm so proud of you"
its usually a "Why like this?!" and blablabla.
Never do I actually get a "Hey, girl, dont give up yet."
well maybe I actually do, but maybe sometimes I dont hear it.
With that, i'd feel assured and I might actually work harder and I would have a stronger will to want an A.
I tell myself, I will work harder, I study my butt off sometimes but I never get an A.
I studied so hard for Sejarah, I got a 75. I was satisfied, but that satisfaction doesnt satisfy me when I think that I could have done better.
Getting scolded is actually the last thing I want to get when I tell them my results, but its usually the first.
The end of the day, all I can actually do is cuddle myself into sleep in tears and probably go to school with swollen eyes.
It's very hard to reach other people's expectations of you. My mum always tells people that
i'm a smart girl but lazy. I dont actually think thats true at all. I am not smart in my academics
but probably when it comes to other nonsense.
and I'm actually not that lazy to study. I'm just kinda lazy to do Maths.
I'm not smart, really.
I actually HATE going to school and stare at the teacher teaching.
I actually HATE having tuition, when half the time I get lectured for my attitude,
I actually want to scream and run out of class and tear my exam papers and books.
I actually HATE learning.
But what can I actually do about it, it's like the law to go to school and learn and all those sorta stuff.
At times, I feel very happy in
Choir, though I dont have friends in Soprano but hey!
I feel so happy I get to sing and just throw everything. I feel so happy.
I actually like acting. and drama, you know those kinda stage performances sorta stuff.
I actually love playing
netball, cause I actually feel good at it.
I just guess, studying is not my thing, as much as I want to get alot of A's and make my parents so happy and be as good as my sister.
You know, I actually was very scared when I took my UPSR. When I got 5A's i felt on top of the world, I was so happy I cried.
Maybe because, I could achieve what my sister had achieved before.
When I could do achive something like that I feel happier than anything else in the world. It might be the same for you too.
When I was opened to so many other things, I think that the world has so much more for me to do than study.
Heck yeah I want to be a successful woman. But I dont only have to be successful in my academics.
..
I just realised i'm not athletic and I am really lack of confidence to act.
I
sing alot in the toilet when I shower. thats a secret.
When I'm in the toilet, I actually sound good. I could sing as loud as I wanted to, but at times, I feel like an idiot singing when i'm scrubbing soap onto myself.
And my sister would come in and tell me to shut up.
When I play the piano and I master a song, i'd play it all the time, cause i'm so proud of myself, that I can actually play something, cause you know, I suck in piano and i'm really far as good as my sister.
And when I play it so frequent,my sister would actually say
"Ohmygosh come on lah is that the only song you know"
So what if it is, at least I can play something.
Maybe she only said it once, but once was enough to make me feel depressed.
Yeah I am not as good as my sister in academics in piano. In everything else.
But at least I can play netball.
At least I can control my emotions.
At least I can be more independent at times.
At least I can sing.
At least I can take pictures.
At least I am actually brave enough to take risks.
Thats what I think of myself, and maybe you dont agree with me but who knows me more, YOU or myself?
Perhaps maybe, my sister can make tomato rice, when I cant even fry an egg.
Maybe she can get an A in Physics and I fail my Maths.
But one day I'll fill my sisters shoe. Or maybe make my own shoe, in many different ways.
I WILL and you know it.
And my parents always say that
I give up halfway in everything I do.
I dont give up. I just think that, it's not what I want to do.
Its my life right? Why cant I choose what I want to do and what I want to drop?
Like I quit after white belt of taekwondo.
There was once I stopped Piano and continued again and now I'm not learning the exam syllabus. And I know people learn piano to get like extra credit for University and college.
But I think that if piano is for me to enjoy myself and just throw in whatever I have on the keys then I actually enjoy myself.
Some people get so stressed over piano exams.
Currently, I dont have any extra credit, i'm in form 2 already. I guess I got to find something I want to do and put in my best.
And be extraordinary in whatever sort.
I'm just going to smile for the rest of the week. Is doing badly in an exam a reason for me to depress myself?
I guess not, and I usually would say I'd put in more effort next time, but seriously I dont want to.
But I'll try hard for the Mid term exam. How much I hate it, I just got to be best friends with it.
I'd wish and dream, i'd risk myself to take chances, just as long as I make a good change and I'm happy :)
Thanks for your time,
suetwei♥
really, i need to thank you for your time, it was a bloody long post. :)
p/s: Please ignore my terrible usage of English and I sometimes wonder how I actually get into set 1 English.