A Work In Progress

a double acrostic S - Scared to death, I dreaded failures E - Exams in high school were formidable. L - Leery as I was, my final grades were phenomenal F - Finishing with a B- average I stood in disbelief. A - A little less shaky, I headed to higher academia; C - College-life was stressful but I refused to panic. T - Test taking became part of becoming an adult. U - University structure was a different milieu; A - Actually I finally got rid of the false chimera L - Learning who I was and liking how it made me feel. I - Independence was not the roadblock that I Z - Zeroed in on as an unsure teenage klutz. A - Actualization is a work in progress. My agenda T - Takes on a different focus now; I am less of a pessimist. I - I graduated with a new motto, a kind of alibi - O - Occasional failure is not an opportunity to forego N - New learning experiences because of intimidation. written Nov. 10, 2016