[I]t is a terrible feeling to realize for the first time that your best may not be good enough, that life is indifferent to your effort.
The bitter aftertaste of failure doesn’t stem from a notion that everyone in life gets a trophy. It stems from the false certainty that we will be among those who do.
— Robert McClendon, a first-year student at the University of Tulsa College of Law, describing some of his classmates’ state of mind during finals, and the sense that their first failures in life may be upon them. He goes on to recount seeing “zombies in sweatpants” and “people in tears.” McClendon is a former reporter with The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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