Pain Demands to be Felt
The last few months, weeks, and days have been a relatively melancholy time for me. I think that this time has been a low point in a lot of people’s lives due to global affairs involving the COVID-19 pandemic and the protests for advancing the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as many other personal elements going on in everybody’s lives. One of the things that has been bringing me down recently is that I failed this gateway securities exam for which I have been studying really hard for the last few weeks. I exerted a lot of my time and energy into preparing for this exam as well as sacrificed a lot of social interactions with loved ones in order to achieve the outcome I wanted. Failing this exam was a setback in my finance career. I try not to measure my worth in performance and academic achievements, but failing this exam made me feel as if my hard work got me nowhere and that I was incapable of attaining the goals I have laid out for myself. I have felt this theme play out ...