No matter who we are, the poor or the rich, the retarded or the normal, as long as we are scholars, we can hardly avoid ourselves from being tagged by people as the most intelligent and all-rounded students who, they think, only need less effort from teachers and our superiors to raise us up in our potential abilities. But who knows the dilemma we had behind this fantastic and superficial kudos we portrait in front of people? Who knows that we, scholars suffered from various kind of pressure and harassment from the surrounding? Who knows what we feel and think about this?
Being a scholar is just like a lottery winner who gains a good ticket for him or her to get a bumper prize. The very first moment when we knew we could gain a scholarship from any bodies we applied to, the people around us surely would first, congrats us upon our honor; second, pieces of so-called "advice" would flooded our ears. (Poor us have to endure all the mantra from different people~)
Advices like:
"You are very lucky!!The government had given you a chance to achieve your goals in your life. The authority seldom open the opportunities to yellow skin people."
"You are brilliant!!!"
"You should appreciate this opportunity."
"Don't waste your talent, accept the offer!!"
"This is GREAT!!!"
"I'm so envy of you!! You are fantastic!!!"
"Hey, don't act stupidly. Grab this chance and move your feet to the stage....."
"Cheer up!!The government aren't so good that they will give you a second chance!! Accept it!!"
Sad to say, these are what the people will say once we get this "luck". I can't deny that some of the advices are true. The government seldom opens great chances for certain ethnic groups to have opportunities to pursue their dream especially students who are just finished their secondary education and those who are hoping for a chance to get a school. When these kind of thought run though our mind, we are indirectly being influenced by the opinion and ideas given by our elders, teachers, friends and the people when we are appraised by them. This is what I called as "Synchronized Ideas-Influenced Syndrome".
We are infected!!!!!!!!
For scholars like us, we are actually very lucky to have the opportunity to embark on our tertiary studies especially for those who are from poor family background. We will force to think in this way which, i think, is contradicting with our concepts and principles, and gradually, just like what the people think about us, we accept the "fact" that we are really brilliant and superb to have the chance to fly away and strike for the best.
It is very common for people to think that we are very brilliant and lucky to gain such a great chance to be a scholar, though, they do not really know what are the repercussions that follow up the acceptance of these kinds of scholarship on scholars themselves. Who really understand what we want from the status as a scholar? And who has good ears to be the listeners of us? The voice of resentment keep on accumulating in the mind of scholars, and who can appease the wave of indignation?
Scholars, scholars, scholars!!!!!!!!!
Stop treating us in such an arbitrary way, please!!!!
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
Just like you, We are also HUMAN.
We are NOT super genius who have IQ score of 200;
We are NOT as brilliant as you think we are;
We are NOT problem settlers who you think we can solve every single task you give to us;
We are NOT the kind of person you think we are;
We are NOTHING but HUMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are just as normal as you are.
For mercy, please give us a short while to breathe, treat us normally, raise us up slowly.Please...
We are just a group of innocent victims...of this modern world.
(T______________T)
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