All Of Her Years - Post Reading

I have changed, I'm not the same man as I was before the incident. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a regular Sunday, I woke up from bed and I started to prepare myself to the big test I had to do in math. It was a big test and I wanted to get a good grade, it was very important to me because it was the final exam of the year. I was confident because I studied a lot and I had no fear from failing or getting a bad grade.

It all began when I entered the class.
I sat at my table, waiting for the teacher to hand over the test so we could start the test. She gave me the test and she returned to her table. I opened the test and suddenly I felt a strange feeling.
I began to be less confident and I feared I might fail.

I went over the math questions and I felt a great confusion and I started to be nervous. I tried to answer the questions but I couldn't. Next to me sat my friend Tom, who was a genius in math.
I was so nervous and I didn’t know what to do, so I tried to ask him to help me with the test. I didn’t think twice, all I wanted was to get a high score. Tom managed to help me with some of the questions  until the teacher noticed me and Tom cheating. She stood up and came towards us, she was very angry and she took my test and Tom's test and she failed both of us.

At that moment I understood that I failed my friend and myself. I felt terrible about the test but more about my friend Tom who failed the test. From that moment I started to be more responsible for my actions.
I was selfish, I didn’t think for a second about what it will do to Tom.
From this day I started considering my actions and their outcome.

Very Good work!

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Daphna