People are always working hard simply for one reason – getting the good looks of everyone else. It’s just always this case, and it always seems like it’s the only reason why people are working hard. Haven’t they realised that the actual reason for working hard probably to achieve what they’ve always dreamt of? Instead of being appreciative and satisfied with theyr fruits of labour, they never fail to yearn for more. Worst case – Complacency.
A usual school year comprises of 4 different terms, 2 different semesters. Do you go all full-force in the first term? And then when you achieve desirable grades, you think it’s time to slow down, it’s time to be satisfied. For that one term. Or would you continue striving as hard as you’ve strived for during the first term? Would you even have the stamina to do that? Just yesterday, we had a talk in school about pacing yourself well throughout the whole school year. Nothing is too late, people say, but what if we hadn’t paced ourselves well from the start of the year? Would there still be hope for one to work hard and now go full-force for the last leg of their Secondary 3 race?
It always seems like the case, where students are all geared up only by their final exams. Bad?? May not! Weird things always happen to me. When I get the first glance of my results, I’m always filled with satisfaction. But subsequently when you go around asking people how they did, you get discouraged and disheartened. Then slowly, a series of unfortunate events throughout the day occur. How crappy! Like events that made you see like a failure keeps popping up, and you get so low and inferior that you sometimes just want to jump down from the top floor of your block. Haha, who knows, another unfortunate event would occur – you don’t die, you become paralysed?
Then I’m motivated to do well, especially when it’s already the final race for this year. And then more events pop out to limit and restrict your time for study (one of them being blogging!)! Sigh, unstoppable self-denial (sometimes) and unpredictable chains of negative reactions throughout the day! Am I going to start really intensively work hard and strive for the best? *Thnks about striving hard for: Chemistry, Physics, Social Studies, English, Chinese, Music, A Math, E Math*
No, thank you.
So people say, don’t think of your expected outcome, but just think of getting through the gruelling process of revision before enjoying your results. Do we just don’t think about what we want, but do everything we can for revision? Hehe, then who would not think about “Then why are we working so hard if we don’t even have a goal?” ‘Cos simply, that’s like not having a goal? Hehe, but we shall see, this new ‘technique’ (or so I call it) actually seems logical and understandable! No space for putting that down yet! Hehe, contradiction, but oh well! I do think that’s a really good way though.
As Mark Twain once said:
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
So instead of getting started on blogging more, let me get started on the things I’ve got to get started.
