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Chapter 2: Struggle is Yet Another Name Given to Success

Hey! How are you doing today? I just saw you getting carried

away in the moment yesterday so it was better to leave you

undisturbed. I really want you to tell me what you felt but I’m

sure the experience you had could only be felt, not expressed.

So let’s continue without wasting even a second because

remember, it only takes a second to change everything. It was

during my O-levels that the real struggle began, everyday I

would sit down for hours alone while my books would stare at

my pondering face. “Why me!?” That one question was all

there I had left in my mind. My tears hid beneath the drops of

sweat rolling down my cheeks and with each additional

second, my suffocation increased. Waking up everyday at

8am and sitting at my dining table till 2am with my books as

my only partners, had been my daily routine until my CIES

started. Somewhere in my mind my dignity was shattered

into pieces of tiny shards of glass which were so tiny that even