Thankfully, my parents aren’t the type to give my siblings and I cliché and cringey life lessons like every parent on any Disney channel show. That’s why when my parents do, it sticks. A few years ago my mom told me “If it feels too easy, then it is.” Basically, she was trying to tell me that taking shortcuts or the easy way out will nearly always come to bite me back in the ass. Or at least that’s what I interpreted from our discussion. She gave me this advice when I was studying for my next Pony Club rating. Essentially, you have to prove that you will be prepared for the test three months before the actual test date so that the examiners aren’t wasting their time. To do this, you have to get signed off on each category by a list of approved people. When I found out that I personally knew one of the people and that they would sign off for me, trusting that I knew my stuff without actually quizzing me, my mom warned against it. She told me that by no means was she going to say I couldn’t but that it wasn’t a good idea. And so naturally I went against her advice and took the easy way out. And then when it came time for the test, I failed. The first rating I had ever failed. So maybe my mom was right.
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