now that my circadian rhythm is completely fucked up, i finally feel like a real university student.
people tend to compare themselves with people and say they "achieved nothing".
(especially so in universities when everyone is competitive, smart, and mentally disturbed)
i think i have said this before, but i personally feel its foolish to compare yourself with another, just to find out how inferior you are in some parts.
i believe people are fundamentally different, and we never really understand another person fully enough, to be able to get to some kind of conclusion by comparing each other.
that being said, when you think you're inferior compared to an another person, i will say you are wrong. i also believe that everyone is perfectly flawed.
only you get to decide how much you have achieved.
so how would you gauge your achievement when you cannot compare with others?
it is very difficult to measure something without a scale, afterall.
i say compare you, with yourself.
if you're the same person compared to you a year ago, you're allowed be ashamed of yourself.
be proud, if you can say that you're different from what you are yesterday.
even though the change may be one extra noun that you've learnt, or one equation you've memorized, or one friend you've gained.
anything less, is very difficult to achieve, and basically its not an easy task to be an underachiever.
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Hey tats, good to hear this coming out in the blogosphere. I have the same order of thought when it comes to that..
What if say, 10 years ago you were an overachiever and 10 years later, you're just an average kid? Maybe even lower than average. You'd feel even more inferior no?
'especially so in universities when everyone is competitive, smart, and mentally disturbed'
OMG they really are! Especially the older ones and the previous students who did their a levels there in my uni! Bloody hardworking and smart people.
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