Comparison Kills the Sense of Achievement

The 10th and 12th board results came out this week and I am NOT HAPPY. No, I didn't give the exams this year (I passed 12th last year), but the thing that makes me unhappy is the wave of comparison that sets up just nanoseconds after the results are out. Aunts, uncles, neighbours and all sorts of people found on earth just have one question. I would have been happier if the question was,"What is your result?",but, strictly opposite to me,the most important question is,"What is your friend's/cousin's result?".

If you score more than your friends or cousins your life is all good and all your wishes and demands are fulfilled even before you open your mouth to ask for them.But IF, you score less than your mum's best friend's son or dad's boss's daughter then WELCOME TO HELL.Even if you get a decent 90 percent,still you will be told that someone else got a 95. Your achievement is marred by a person whom you don't even know.

Your biggest loss between all this is that your sense of achievement is brutally killed and the criminal (read: parents) is never arrested. Parents should never compare their children with the other people regarding marks and scores and all the academic shit(pardon me for the language but u prefer writing what I feel.)
In today's world your marks are good only if they are better. People have forgotten the word GOOD and everybody loves BETTER. And till the time we say this would shift to BEST. So here I am to your rescue dear students and parents:

ADVICE FOR STUDENTS

1. Please don't feel bad when someone else scores better.Each person has different strengths and weaknesses.

2.Be proud of your score and celebrate every satisfactory result with joy and sweets and a chilled beer :P

3. If your parents tell you about someone else's result be happy for them and Never Ever be jealous or develop hatred for them because you never know how hard they worked or what were their circumstances.

ADVICE FOR CRIMINALS (READ:PARENTS)

1.Please be proud of your child.

2. Please don't kill his sense of achievement with your bloody comparison. (pardon me again)

3. Please please please let your child be happy for what he achieved with his own hardwork and skill and be a part of his celebration instead of giving okayish looks.

4. Don't you dare lie about your child's score just to match it up to anybody else's better score.Be honest and be proud.

Good bye. Stay happy. Keep reading.

Alloyed Universe