CHRONICLES OF LADY AVA: 316 SAGA



One of the things I love about Lady Ava is how much of a believer she is. By "believer," I mean the kind of person who holds on firmly to the possibility of something happening, no matter how impossible it may seem.

So, when she filled out her first JAMB form, putting the almighty, most sought-after, and competitive "Medicine and Surgery" as her first choice and set herself the target of "316/400," I knew she would believe to no end and work towards it.

For someone who practically had no specific or scheduled study time, Madam placed herself on a strict timetable. Every now and then, she increased her study hours. She even did those things we see in K-dramas, like posting sticky notes that contained not just affirmations but also the goal "316," boldly written just above her study desk.

Months before the exam, she was really wearing herself out. She believed with all certainty that she'd get it, the dream score and the admission! So, imagine her heartbreak when she got neither.

Initially, she was depressed over her score, she didn’t meet the cut. But, like I said earlier, Madam would believe till the end that things would somehow work out, no matter how they seemed. So even with her low score, she didn’t do a switch like most people did; she just waited and hoped that it would work out.

Guess what? It didn’t. Not on her first attempt, and not even on her second attempt at taking the same exam. At a point, it felt like a curse. One moment, she strongly believed that this time it would be different and work out, but it didn’t.

I’m pretty sure we’ve all come to that point where we somehow feel it in our spirit—or so—that something is surely going to work out, only for it not to. And the most embarrassing part of it is how confident we often are about it.

Dearest reader, weren’t we told that if we believed it, then it might just happen? Why, then, did Lady Ava miss the mark? Trust me, she believed hard, hard enough to fall into a spiral of chronic depression afterward.

So, it had nothing to do with her "believer" spirit. She soon realized that her falsely serious attitude toward studying, as a result of the goal (which, prior to that time, was non-existent), was part of the factors that influenced her epic fail. Her previous lifestyle before preparing for the exam had not been efficient enough to support the new routines she was forcing into it. I guess she forgot that life isn’t rocket science, and often, results come from the compound effect of sustained effort over time.

But did she learn? Of course not! One interesting thing about Lady Ava is that if it isn’t the hard way, she’ll never learn!

Well, you tell me, what do you think is the reason she didn’t get the 316?




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