Tenth is a difficult class. It is tough not because of its wide syllabus , but because of the tension and pressure created in the minds of the students due to boards.
Boards! that one month which makes a major difference in every student's life ; the first competitive exam that a child faces. My tenth batch (2009-2010) is the last batch to give the boards (all thanks to Kapil Sibal , our present education minister ) . I still remember the nervousness that swept over me when i went to give my first board examination . I was so frightened that I filled up the form incorrectly. But as the exams were nearing their end , I started feeling so easy and casual that i overcame the fear of writing boards .
But I also feel that , that pressure and tension is nothing in front of what I'm going through now I'm in eleventh and I'm facing the most difficult problem of choosing subjects . I guess giving boards is much easier than this . In my family all my cousins are science students , some are engineers and some doctors . I also want to take science but I don't want to be a doctor or and engineer . My dream is to become a journalist . My parents support me and some of my relatives too. Then what seems to be the problem ???? The problem is that they all think , for journalism why should one take a difficult stream like science . They think that something like this one should choose Humanities or Commerce . Here I don't agree with them . Why can't one take science and do journalism , so many people have , so why not me ???? In my family there aren't any journalists , but that doesn't mean that I can't be one . I want to do something unique . I want to achieve something that none of my cousins have achieved .
I'm proud of myself because I've decided to become a journalist and not a doctor or an engineer . I don't know whether my decision of not following the footsteps of my elders is right or not . But I'm aware that chasing our dreams is not wrong and there is nothing better than a dream come true . After all not everyone has the courage to take the road not taken .
