Work to the best of your ability

Well, it has been a very tough few days for me. Blood, sweat, tears and even an emergency visit to Salmaniya's emergency room during school hours sums up what I have been going through this past week.

Like most teenage students I have been faced with a lot of pressure to stay on top of my academic grades and to end the year with a good round of results.

I guess I might have overdone the studying and the reviewing. With only a few hours of sleep over several nights followed by seven hours of school work it was more than my body could take.

The day I started hyperventilating and fainting taught me a very valuable life lesson.

Thoughts of university, the amount of fees, scholarship acceptance, etc, have also all played heavily on my mind and in the end all these issues were too difficult for me to handle.

I feel pretty sorry for all the trouble that my principal and teachers had to go through to get me help and I am very grateful for their generosity and kindness.

When you want success so badly, it is easy to forget about exhaustion and what can happen when you overdo things.

At the end of the day you can only work to the best of your ability ... that is all people ask of you and that is all you should ask of yourself.