I have been in an excruciatingly painful situation over the weekend. All weekend I tried, no I should say, struggled to make an electroscope that worked. The roots of this painful situation can be traced back to the day when we were given our science homework assignment in which we had to make a science project. Initially like all other excited students I thought I would make something really cool in physics. But then as new circumstances and situations unfolded in my life, I became very busy with excessive homework that teachers began giving (this is due to the fact that every teacher thinks that her subject is the only thing that we study). And after the homework there were other important things to do like tweeting, facebooking, blogging etc. Sure science project was important but not as important as social networking. So I just made a diminutive electromagnet which also took me some time, but maybe not that much hard work. Consequently I took my little electromagnet to school, showed it to my physics teacher. She told me to use a more powerful battery because the attractive force on the magnet wasn’t so much to attract a big object. When I saw the projects of some other students which were much better than mine, I realized my little electromagnet was nothing much to fetch me good grades. Also I was mocked by my friend for making such a useless project. Therefore in order to get good grades I thought I would remake my project, I took permission from the teacher for the same and she told me make an electroscope which she said would be an easy job.
This brings us to last weekend when I spent the entire Saturday and half my Sunday trying to make an electroscope. Well, technically speaking I did manage to make one, only it was not working. I made numerous attempts to a proper one, wasted a lot of time, money, hard work. But there was no result. In the end I kind of lost it. I became really mad, mad at the teacher, mad at the circumstances, mad at myself. I felt like a loser. I began blaming science, for the fact that it is so tough. I blamed the teacher for telling me to make this. I blamed my luck. And I thought that there was no way I would take science
Then mom told me to take my dump to school and ask the teacher why it is not working. And I took it to school where someone mocked at me for making something which looked like pieces of foil in a jar. That gave me a stronger feeling that my project looked like a dump. I took it home without showing it to the teacher because I could not find her after school, also because I thought I would be kind of embarrassing to show.
This brings us to right now when I am sitting here blogging. The deadline to show the project is Friday and I don’t know what I am gonna do about the science project. But I do know that I am going to do something much better than what I attempted previously and I also know that I am going to do it tonight and it’s going to be great. Mom just went from my room after she caught me blogging and kind of scolded me for blogging despite the fact that I haven’t made my science project and reminded of all the time I have wasted on the electroscope and also blamed for not showing the electroscope to the teacher.
That demoralized me a bit but I am not giving up. After wasting all that time, money, hard work I am going to start all over again and I hope this time I succeed. If I don’t, I’ll try again. Wish me luck. J
"You will fall down, you will get hurt but there are better things to do than wail in self-pity"
"Success is not measured by how high we go up in life but by how many times we bounce back when we fall down. It is this bounce-back ability that determines success."
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