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| Do you ever just need to take a step back, relax, and breathe? I do.
PS. I want ice cream.
PPS. At least I'm not this guy... | | |
| Sometimes, you just have to wonder... "What's the point?"
This question can be applied to many things--work, interpersonal relations, and activities, among others. I think that often times, we (or at least I) get sucked into doing things that ultimately lose meaning. We then perseverate them purely out of habit. While this suits our least-work-required mentality, this is not good for personal growth. Doing this, we stop thinking and simply become drones. Changing this proves to be quite troublesome, however, because if we made a judgement or had a thought at some point that is later proven to be wrong, what other "truths" could in fact be lies?
I am at a cross-roads for a few different things in my life. I need to decide what exactly I will do with myself, even if I find that at times, avenues that I have taken could possibly no longer suit me. I believe that I will still aim for medicine, even if my second MCAT wasn't to my liking, but I will have to check myself at every step of the way to make sure that I am happy. | | |
| You know that it's one of those days when it starts to pour, but you forgot your umbrella.
You know that it's one of those days when you try to erase your whiteboard, and it crashes on your face.
You know that it's one of those days when everything just seems to be going against you.
You know that it's one of those days when nothing you do works right at first.
You know that it's one of those days when you suddenly have a million tasks dumped on you.
You know that it's one of those days when you realize that you just don't care anymore.
*plays that limp bizkit song in my head* | | |
| I wish I could just bypass the first two stages in life (according to that Luvs Diapers™ mantra), and just magically have all of the answers in life the first time around. Why is it that wisdom requires experience? Darn the fact that they are inextricably linked sometimes...
Sometimes it really takes something major to make you think 'Damn. Who the hell have I become?'
A couple of things in the past few weeks have forced me to question who exactly I have become. If I take on the state of mind I had just two years ago, I would not be able to recognize many things that I have done recently as being done by me. Things I took as canon back then just are not congruent with how I have lived. I have tried to pinpoint exactly where I have gone wrong, but that is hard sometimes. Luckily for me, however, finding the route back is far easier than pinpointing where I changed along the way. The thing is, I know the route, so now I must walk it. I just have to make sure that I take back goods from the journey, which in my case are a few lessons in morality, how to treat others, and how to be a real man.
I just hope that I can learn from my experiences because without growth, negative experiences in one's past simply become mistakes. And I don't know about you, but I don't like making mistakes. I do, however, enjoy being taught lessons and making myself a better person. The only thing that differentiates a mistake from a negative experience that instigated personal growth is the way one reacts to the experience and what he/she takes from it.
Without the silver lining of added experience, knowledge, and wisdom; I wouldn't like what I see.
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