This is the Sad Part

There comes a point of everyone's school life where they are tested on all they have learned. Finals. GSCES. State testing. Whatever you call it. It diminishes any good from the year. A test and its score clams up students as they complete it.

I'm still dealing with that fear myself.

It swallows you whole. Plaguing your mind, making you believe things that aren't true. Sweat runs down your hands in rivers. Your mind is blank as you frantically scan the questions. The time ticks like a mournful gong. Your stomach becomes a vacant anxious pit. It doesn't go away after the test because you know in the deepest corners of your mind, it will keep coming back the following year.

I also doubt it will ever go away because even if I finish every final I am given, there will always be something to measure our success in numerical values. Something that makes even the most motivated people doubt their own skills in fear of never being good enough to get the score they want.