So you made a mistake. So what?

So you made a mistake. So what? Even if that means you're not as clever as the other students, so what? Does this mean you don't have a future and that you can just go and kill yourself? No!!! It simply means you have to work twice as hard as other people! If you admit that you can never catch up, then you're done! You have no reason to continue living then, because you have no courage at all. Other people may not think highly of you, but you cannot deny yourself. 'cos if you do, then everything's over for you.

If, as you have guessed all along, you are not as clever, then work harder. Make full use of your time. Don't make phone calls all the time begging for the so-called "understanding". Yes other people may be willing to grant you that, then what? This is your life, which you should have control over. 你不能靠别人的同情别人的理解而活着，你应该努力成为你自己想成为的人。

If you are not stupid, then work hard. If, unfortunately, you are, then you need to, you have to, work harder. That's the only way to make up for your lack of intelligence. What is wrong here? Do you not want to be someone knowledgeable and useful? Do you not want to make money and improve the living standards of your family? Do you not have pride?

Yes you do! You have pride! That means you cannot even afford to fall behind. So don't! The only way for you to catch up is to work harder, because you know that if you spend one more second complaining, others are using that time to improve themselves. Then the gap between you and the others are just going to get wider and you'll lose even more confidence! Is that something you want to see? NO!!!!!!

If you want to keep your pride, you have to catch up and be better! The only way to achieve that is to work harder. You now have two choices for using your time, one is to sit there thinking over and over again how useless you are and planning how to kill yourself; the other is to work hard. If you choose number 1, then you'll be a loser forever. You'll never be able even to hold your head up when you pass by others. But if you choose number 2, there's a great possibility that you can catch up and become a better person! You can gain confidence! You can spell out your name clearly without worrying that you might be laughed at. Now THIS is what you want.

What has happened has become the history and you can never turn back time. What you have is NOW. At NOW you are the master of yourself. You have full control over your direction. After the analysis of your situation, you have to realize that the only choice you have is to work hard NOW.

Please! Make up a plan and improve yourself. This is the only chance left for you to feel better about yourself. Admit it. You need to do well in your exam. You need to be able to do every question. You need to be better than others. You need to excel. These may sound superficial, but these are exactly what you need to make yourself feel better. So go and do anything you can do grab them!



Now you need to be very clear of your goal. You want to feel confident and you want to assure yourself that you are every bit as good as the other Chinese students, so you want to do well in your finals to pull up your score. You want to feel happy during holiday, so you want to make sure your exam goes smoothly, so you want to be able to do every question, so you need to be clear of every concept and do as many questions as possible, so you need to plenty of time to focus on your study, so you need to plan your time wisely and try not to waste any, so you need to minimize your time for regretting and complaining about the past, because let's face it, you live in NOW, and regretting and complaining about the past is just useless and thus a waste of time which can be saved.


Plan your time wisely for these 4 weeks. Try to have time both for understanding all the basics and for practising. The more you prepare, the greater the possibility you'll be able to answer every question in your final paper, and therefore the greater the possibility that you'll be happy and confident. On the contrary, the more you complain, the less you prepare. The less you complain, the more you prepare, since your fixed amount of time is divided between complaining and preparing.

Conclusion: The less I complain, the more I prepare, the greater the possibility that I'll be happier in my holiday! SO I know what I should do now.