Mediocrity

Ever since I was a little girl I have received compliments for two things continually.

For being cute(blushes) and for my brain. People always said to my mother “wow your daughter is bright” yade yade yada. As I grew up I realized I can retain more things in my head than my sister, then I also recognized that if I read something once, chances are I’ll remember It a long time.

Now, coming to the point- As a kid I never took studies too seriously, I paid enough attention in classes to get good enough marks, I developed other skills and my general knowledge got stronger. I also made myself a pretty likeable person though not a push over at all.

But I was always content with my grades. I called myself the 65 to 85 kid, as in I rarely got less than 65 and more than 85.i developed this strong sense of good enough knowledge or “chalta phirta” knowledge.

As a result of this I am having trouble now, the thing is that I want to do this course that is said to be dreadfully difficult. It’s not unattainable for me, in fact I think it suits me perfectly, only problem is that it demands that the students have excellence in scholarly knowledge.

I had settled for mediocrity a long time back and now even though I’m capable I’m finding it exceedingly difficult to put in that extra bit of hard work even though I don’t fall sort in capability.

If I had strived for excellence from the very beginning I wouldn’t be compelled to put double the effort into something quite achievable. So never settle for something less than what you can accomplish and what you deserve

Do your best.