When I was in the examination hall, I was competing with
myself. There were no one around me, unlike a hundred miters race, but I was
competing with 2 hours of time, I was competing with what I learned in the last
one year….after reading 1000s of pages, 100s of hours, days after days, and
months after months. And, now it’s just a two hours ordeal that decides how
much I had scaled…
I don’t see the lakhs of competitors then and there. It was
all me, my pencil and a question paper. Every passing minute and every warning
bell creates a flutter of nervousness, as there are still miles to go - few
more pages in the question paper, and some numbers of question unanswered.
Unless, one scores all the questions, one doesn’t know if he
topped, as the result takes time unlike a hundred meter race or a marathon. It
becomes speculative, where one’s success is built upon others failure!
In a race or sports, at least everyone knows where they
stand, and that never makes it easy to win though!
Marathons are equally painful, and now I don’t know which
one is difficult!!!! Winning a marathon or topping a competitive exam J
