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Let me tell you a little story about myself. I’m a 19-year-old boy, from Karachi, Pakistan. Recently my results came in and I’ve heard a lot of cases in which the parents pressurized the kid’s too an extent, that led them to end their life.
Hear this out:
3 years ago, I started my A level and I failed it. I got 3 Us. I was forced to shift to intermediate, and I joined a college for a month and then literally took my mothers slaps on my face because I did not attend my college and I thought about quitting. I then got back to A level and repeated privately. And bang, I failed again. I got 2 Us and an E. I was hiding my face, running from everyone. Shame had ruined me. And I had every kind of pressure on my head.
I had wasted two years of my life and I was nowhere. Anyway, I have a bad habit of never giving up, although a million times I thought to kill myself, I even failed at that. You know why? Because I had people laughing at my failures and it was cutting me deeper than a knife would. I stood in front of the mirror and asked my self. Talked to my spirit. My own eyes couldn’t match them in the mirror but the voice inside said, “Do not give up”. I started to study again, took all 3 subjects as accelerated ones and took accounts as well for which I had no background.
Studied a 4-year syllabus for that. I used to and always will suck at maths. I sat for the May/June 2017 session and the results came out on the 10th. I cleared all subjects with satisfactory grades. Trust me, I am not ashamed of my failures. I failed and I am proud. If I hadn’t failed, I would have never talked to the person inside me. So if you have failed or haven’t scored good enough, suicide is easy, shutting the critics is harder.
And the Quran says, with every hardship there is an ease. Take the harder way. Don’t give up. Try again, that is all that matters. Failure is a badge of honor. More times you will fail, you will learn. Once you’ll learn, and score good, then think about what would have happened if you had ended your life back then? You’ll end up smiling and thinking you were just an idiot who had suicidal thoughts.
Cheers fellas, not every body has the spine to bear the weight of what you carry. Come on, go all the way out. And get it done. Try again. It’s okay to fail, you’ll only enjoy the success best when you will taste failure, and that is what will make you great. You yourself will make you. Not your grades.
