the main piece of advice i have for students is this: learn how to fail and persevere. it is a skill that will help you in life far more than perfect grades.
think of failure impersonally. when you fail, you have just eliminated one method that doesn’t work for you, so you need to try a different method in the future. figure out which factors contributed to the undesirable result, and change them. (teachers, advisors, and academic counselors can help you with this if you aren’t sure where to start).
i know from personal experience that fear of failure is often a self-fulfilling prophecy, because it leads to self-sabotage. if you can learn not to think of it as an inherent personal flaw, but rather as a strategy that didn’t work for you and can be changed, you will be well-equipped to face the inevitable failures and rejections that are part of life.
I have been there
Where you feel like
your soul is trying
to run away from your
own body
Where the sound of
your beating heart
makes you want to rip
your ears off
Where you feel like
breathing is the worst thing
And still
you aren’t good enough
to breathe anymore
Where the world feels dead
and sky is nothing
more than a flat surface
Where moments are just
about pain and hurt
But
giving up was not in my options
and it will never be my way
even all of this comes back
thousand times a day.
mirror
This is really true.
Lol truee.
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”
- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
“Chino Moreno’s voice sounds like the best sex I’ve never had ”
