iSTEx: I Share The Experience

  In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.......   It is senseless to brood over your past mistakes and failures as it will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. The only thing that can be done is to  learn and try not repeat them in the future. Few years ago I sat for my ordinary level with 9 subjects to validate. Of this 9, I was confident if not cocky about my ability to pass 8, but I had the opposite feeling about the 9th. Mathematics. I’ve always hated mathematics and it didn’t help that we had very impatient teachers. I loathed it to the point that I didn’t care at all if i passed. I think it’s safe to say that I didn’t even want to pass: that’s how much I hated it.  My elder brother was willing to teach me for a time but I was so uninterested that I avoided the topic whenever he brought it up and when he insisted, I would tell him I had a serious headache. My friends who were typical science students also tried to teach me but th...

The walls we build to keep out sadness also keeps joy out. Sadness as we all know is an emotional pain associated with feelings of despair, melancholy, disadvantage, sorrow and so on.  As per our human nature, we try our utmost best to flee from this emotion so much so that we shut people and things out of our lives and slowly we turn ourselves into islands and shadows of our former selves.  During my youth, I came across a classmate who "seemed" to be happy all the time, but the moment you mention or ask about her family, she turns sour. Long story short, her family was a sour topic for her to bring up, her family issues should have been a good enough reason for her to have an aloof attitude like what most people resort to but No, she held on and decided to find happiness in other things likes; spending time with friends and never gave room for sorrow.  She did not build walls and each time I thought of what she might have gone through, it made me reminisce on my own sad...