Beautiful Let Down

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
-W. Shakespeare

One thing that I don't like after taking a very long exam is when everybody has already finished taking theirs, and then you would talk and discuss the answers (even tho it seems to be you caught amnesia and suddenly you don't know whatever it is that you answered on the damn test lol), how a particular problem is solved, etc., and then you'd realize all the mistakes you've made. It's a sure smack! in the face and then you'd feel really lousy afterwards. Sucks isn't it? And I don't like the feeling at all. You're drained of your entire energy and you end up thinking if you could only turn back the hands of time and do it right, and how much points you have to get in the next exam, not to mention wishing how you wanted to kill your professor for making such a 'masterpiece'. Heh.

Sometimes I wish that these things won't have to happen, that when you take an exam they just check it and give you the scores no questions asked. But that's not the case. Even though how much you regret not being able to answer the problems correctly, you have to face the truth and know how to do it right. How would one learn from his mistakes if he doesn't know where he got wrong in the first place? And this doesn't only relate to taking exams, it is also relevant in our everyday lives. The only difference is than in our lives, tests come first before the lessons; while in school we learn the lessons first before we get tested on them.

I know this might have been said thousands of times but truly, by learning from one's mistakes (and reflecting on your actions as well) does one become a better person.