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Failing a college course is pretty much unimportant. If someone thinks otherwise, then they are just too close to the situation and can't get the right perspective. Honestly, you could get expelled from college, completely flunk out, get arrested, whatever, and still be OK. I've seen all that happen. Seems like the end of the world at the time, but in fact it's just a setback and quite possible to come back from as if it never happened. A lot of the most successful people I know flunked at least one thing at some point.
There is no good reason to commit suicide. There is a saying about that:
"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
School problems will pass. One way or another they will pass. If you feel your entire self-worth is tied up in university, then you should be seeing a professional about that. Every human being is far more than just what they do. When we lose sight of that we lose sight of our humanity.
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Politics, romance, jobs, school… whatever the goals, failure is just a natural fact of life that we all have to cope with at some point. So isn't it just a little early in the "game" to already be considering "throwing in the towel"?
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Especially when your whole worth depends on how good you are at university. If you take it away, there's nothing left.
No one's whole worth depends on "how good you are at university". That's a choice someone is making to determine their "worth" or using as an excuse not to move forward in life.
No one's whole worth depends on "how good you are at university". That's a choice someone is making to determine their "worth" or using as an excuse not to move forward in life.
Perhaps to those who have lots of talents. That's not my case. Since I have a memory, my whole life has been devoted to school. Of course once you get to university, it only matters how good you are there. You could have been a top student before that it doesn't really matter anymore.
I either get a high paying job or I don't think I would want to stay to witness the other option.
As someone who has made $9 an hour for the past 15 years I can tell you that living is sometimes just not worth it. I'm not advocating suicide but still.
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