When the mind is set

There are four lines at the back of my writing pad.

When the mind is set,
Success comes easy.
Make victory your habit,
Do well in exams.

The model exams got over last week and I had a hectic time like always. But there was a positive change in my attitude towards it. Unlike the usual, when I used to complain and blame each and every soul around for enrolling me in such a hell of a college, I decided to do some proper studying and guess what?? I ended up surprising myself.

Here’s an account of what I did during that week.

SUNDAY:

5-8am : studying

8-9am: breakfast

9:30am-1:30pm: studying

2-4pm: nap time

4.30-8pm: studying

8-9pm: dinner

9-11pm: studying

11pm- 5am: sleeping


MONDAY-SATURDAY:


6.30-11am: college

1pm-2pm: home. Lunch.

2pm-4pm: nap

4.15-8pm: study

8-9pm: dinner

9-11pm: study

11pm-1am: sleep

1.15-5am- study again.

6.30-11am: college

That one week was nothing short of hell itself. But I was determined to stick to this schedule and make up for the time wasted without touching my books. And when I went through the question paper after a short prayer, I seemed to know the answers to almost all the questions, something that has never happened for the past three years. The joy of being adequately prepared made me want to do it again and again. Of course, I couldn’t write the answers ditto though. My poor brain, having suffered a lot of freezing, damaging and wrecking for the past three years has evidently lost its capacity to retain things as before. But its revival has started and very soon I’m expecting it to be as grasping and sharp as it was during the school days.

Where did this determination come from? No, it wasn’t a self motivating act. I’m more like this sort of depressed teenager when it comes to anything related to my college. But One person in my life made this happen. Pintoo. His dedication and hard work motivated me and made me want to be a better person. And then I said to myself, “Why cant I work at least as half as hard as him? Am I that incapable of education?. No, I’ve just let the feeling of misery, frustration and anger that I have against my college and that school get the better of me.”

And that’s how I ended up studying sincerely. I’m not worried about the marks I’m going to get. Nope. I’m just happy and satisfied that this time, I gave the exams a better shot than before.

The best.. is yet to come.