My cousin came running towards me, "I got 90% in the my exams!", he exclaimed. "For the next set of exams, we will provide a medical certificate, and so my percentage of these exams will carry forward". My cousin was in grade 2, I was in grade 6. This was a few decades back in India. I congratulated him and asked him again about the medical certificate thing. Yeap, the plan was to get a false medical certificate so that the exam percentage is carried forward. I was aghast to hear this. Luckily, my parents never cared much about my grades in elementary and middle school. Even in high school, they were not too focused on them. They would never think of devising such strategies to pull me out of exams. I was on my own to navigate through them. That's the time when your brain is developing the most. You learn by struggling yourself, not only the course material, but also the principles by which you live your life. I am sure my cousin topped his class in grade 2. I never topped my class. The closest I came was rank 2 in grade 10th, when one student who always used to score better than me got conjectivitis, and skipped an exam.
I got a wonderful and happy childhood, thanks to my parents who never pressured me to study. They did not pressure me to do any extracurricular activities as well. I had the freedom to choose what I do with my time. A happy and carefree childhood is the best gift that parents can give to their children. They get to explore nature, human behavior that way, and have the time to brood over everything around them.
Ask your doctor what stress does to your vitals. As an adult, if you get a few seconds of anger 30 minutes before a medical check-up, you will register high glucose levels in your blood. Imagine what constant stress would do to a young kid. Imagine what moral standards a kid will grow up with if you tell them that it is okay to fake a medical certificate.
P.S. I have decided to not use AI to polish my writings on this blog. I want my writings to be my own.
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