and Words
People say
Don′t ever look behind
Happiness is just a state of mind
Rock and roll lives and breathes in the hearts of the young
So carry on
You’re runnin′ on borrowed time
Tryin’ hard to survive
Keep on runnin’
Your time is comin’
Keep your dreams alive
Lyric excerpts from Musixmatch.
As I entered my tenth grade English class in high school one morning, I realized that we had a test that completely slipped my mind. This particular test was a simple vocabulary test. Our workbook introduced us to a collection of new words and their definition, and for the test we simply needed to scribble down the definition and perhaps use it in a sentence. Vocabulary lessons like this taught me words like ‘elicit’ and ‘illicit’ that may sound similar but are very different.
While I only needed about five or ten minutes to look over the words carefully preceding the test, I did not and thus I failed that test. Following my disastrous first year, I changed my trajectory and transitioned to nearly a straight-A student. Honestly, I didn’t worry about it. I did the math in my head and understood that this failed test would not affect my grade at all. It may bring my grade down 1-2%, but I consistently scored in the mid to high 90%.