It chanced upon me yesterday that I had forgotten to mention that my pw grades was a B. And our class mainly had an arrays of C's and D's. Quite pathetic I would say, while my friends in other schools have entire classes of A's and B's. Effort wise, everyone put in sufficient effort and even I would argue that I had put in adequate amount of effort.(it's fine if others want to put in an excess of effort, but please do not exaggerate or for any matter, raise the benchmark {of effort} to lofty realms). To me, just even opening up notepad to type something pw-related is effort itself! I believe it finally occurs to many people that the concept of proportionality with regards to effort and results is obviously untrue. Not me, but my group was very hyped about Pw. I don't know what got into them but obviously A was their goal. But in the end, all they achieved was a B grade. Not anything to be proud about, considering how much effort they put in. I constantly refer to them as they and me as myself because many would actually argue that the B grade in my hands now is due to them, their effort. But if it was me, in another group. I would argue that I would have at least get a B too with less effort.
By thinking effort is always proportional to results is felony. sometimes, yes. but I believe it's part and parcel of truthiness (definition:the state of wishing things to be true).
I do not deny and do not believe that work is definitely a condition to do well, but no one said you have to work hard. In fact, meritocracy was never an innate trait of nature. Well, not for everyone. Its very sickening to see people studying so hard and not getting As. Sometimes, trying your best is just too superficial. The truth if you slog and you don't get your hard work's equivalent, you just risk looking dense. In such a case, I rather not prepare, and just fail to my heart's contents. People who fail aren't the people who are dense, neither are people who work hard and achieve. But they are the people who try their best but get no where, those are the real noob-digies. (no pun intended).
Flame bait, but who cares.
I'm seriously taking a more antisocial, nonchalant stance towards most people now. On the whole, there aren't many people really worth having a conversation with, let alone, be friends with.
This is going to sound stuck up, but I know the saying that "when you think everyone is wrong, you're the one that is wrong". I feel as if I'm on another planet right now. My ideals, my philosophies on a lot of the general matters are so much of an anomaly from normal people.
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