Page 59 - Failure to Triumph - Journey of A Student

Chapter 12

Become Meritorious

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”- Alexander Pope.

One of the major drawbacks in several people, especially students,
is- they start following and imitating someone very soon.
If you are interested in becoming a follower then how are you going
to become a leader, how are you going to discover the leadership

qualities within you? Whenever the exam results are out, a lot of
students are more interested to know who has got the first rank, who
has emerged as the topper? It is true that the student who has
cleared the exam with the highest score deserves appraisal. But we
must also understand that there is a lot that we can learn from his

experience.
We tend to waste a lot of our time in talking about those students
who are good in studies and score well in examinations. Either we
talk about them with our friends, or on the social media, and we want
to know everything about them. We want them to be our friends, to
guide us and show us the right directions. We start believing that
they have some extraordinary, magical powers that helps them to

excel in their studies.

Let me ask you a question.
Do the students who top the examinations suddenly become more
intelligent, or is it their intelligence which helps them to top the
exams? It is not an easy question. There is no doubt about the fact

that the top ranker has all the skills, he has done the right amount of
hard work and that helped him to give wings to his dreams and come
out with flying colors. But it is also true that if we start looking at
meritorious students as someone with some kind of superpowers or
hidden skills which helped them to get ahead of everyone else; if we
start believing that they have cleared a tough exam because they
have some divine powers or they belong to a different planet then we

can never compete with them. Such thoughts drag us down and we