8 Grades of Life

 

            If you fail grade 12, you fail at the rest of your life, true or false? Although many would claim this statement to be true, it’s actually a trick question, just like the harsh reality that is grade 12. We are conned into believing that our final year will be all pleasant and lively when realistically it is the sheer thought that a break, whether it be Christmas break, summer break or even spring break, is a mere two and a half months away that pulls us through our colossal misery and the pressures of our final year. You are forced to be ranked on your memorization skills and your ability to deliver the perfect answer when asked a question as vague as “Choose the best answer”, where they have the audacity to tell you that what your mind told you was the best answer, was wrong. Your head is brimming with thoughts, advice and “suggestions” and then commanded to choose wisely, when in the final days that you are wandering though the now barren halls of the establishment you spent most of the last 4 years of your life, you find yourself bypassing the petty questions of “are my grades high enough” or “will I be accepted into the university of my dreams” but pondering whether or not you’ve done enough to be remembered. If advice was to be given on how to spend your final year drifting through the common school system, only one piece can be given. Do whatever it takes to create the most action-packed, eventful and memorable final year possible. Don’t let those final 8 grades assigned to your student identification number, define you.