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Mistakes

Today was my most dreaded day in grade 9 till now. I was excited as well as a nervous wreck at the same time before the occurring of The Event that was getting my mathematics answer sheet back. My expectations crumpled to dust when I saw 15 out of 20 written in red right at the top right corner of the sheet. I stood there with numb hands staring at the sheet and about to shed tears but then I told myself that I was in school and crying right there and then would not be able to release my worry instead showcase me as a crybaby to my new mathematics teacher who had handed me the cursed paper because there were many students who had managed to score even worst than me like 4 out of 20 etc yet they weren't even guilty. On the other hand there were students who scored 19.5 out of 20 etc.

I told my friends, who god knows how had managed to score 16,18.5 and 19.5 respectively, about my score and they tried to cheer me up by saying I can do better than that and I was better in the last standard but still my eyes had begun to water up, thankfully no one noticed. I managed to conceal my tears till I reached home and to my room where in privacy, I drained down my waterfall of tears whose reason were my silly mistakes that I had done in the formative assessment. I had known the concepts by heart but silly mistakes never leave me.

I didn't tell my parents about it because I was already feeling guilty and I didn't want it to increase it by looking at their faces if I would have told them. I decided that I'll show all my answer sheets together so that the good marks like in science and english spread their good impacts on the bad ones like mathematics. The score can't be changed now but my amount of hardwork can be so I'll work harder next time because "no running, no quitting" as "quitters never win" and to win everyone has to succeed for which hardwork is needed. After all of this atleast I'll know what all I have to take care of while writing the answers next time because "mistakes can't be repeated, they only happen once because the next time they occur it's not a mistake but your choice."
                                                                        --Sanya Singh