I’m just a normal average student. A normal average student who got her score. A normal average student who got her score and would’ve been okay with it if the people who mean the most to her weren’t disappointed with it. I know they are. My parents, I mean. They’re trying hard not to show it. Their expectations are so high. Everyone’s are.

But I killed them. And I feel like I might have just failed. To roughly quote my dad –

“It’s not bad. Who knows.. in your clinical exam you may get a 99, something”

It’s what he said and the way he said it. Expectations. I hate having to disappoint people if I don’t live up to them. I hate creating the impression that I may live up to them. I just want to be a normal student. Not an overachiever, not a super-smart person, no matter how nice that would be. Just normal.