Take it as it comes.

You know what? Shit happens. It's true. And when it does happen, you feel horrible. It's natural. But you learn to move on. I've decided. There's no damn point being emo about it. What's done is done, you can't rewind it. So why break your head over it now? Look back once, learn, and then don't look back again. Sometimes it's your good luck, sometimes it's not. When you can't control it anyway then why mope about it? Take it as it comes. Hopefully, and I say this because I'm only trying this out now, it'll keep you much happier. I know it hurts especially when it means so much, but bottom line is that it's not the end of the world. And if it's not, then there's no point worrying so much because there's always going to be a tomorrow.

After moot oral tabs released today and I was feeling horrible for performing below anything I expected of my own self, the wise old man of mooting said to me, "Where you go always turns upon what choices you make at the times when you most want to give up". And as useless as it sounded to me at that time, I later realised it's hardly untrue. Today, for the first time since coming to Law School, I doubted my own skills. My capabilities to live up to my own expectations, leave aside those of anyone else. Today, for the first time, I seriously considered giving up. And then I was reprimanded severely for doing so. Learning isn't just about gaining knowledge, I was told, it's also about grappling with such situations. Time and sleep has brought a little more sanity and I feel stupid for having thought that way. Set backs are just those, set backs. So what if you have to cover a little bit of the path you already covered. You're still on the right path and probably in a better position to traverse it now. Smile. Like everything else, this too, shall pass. It must. :)