Sunday, June 29, 2008

Holidays are a farce.
We luxure in the false impression that time is aplenty.
Before we know it, all of it has gone by and our brief tenure of laxness is over.

A four-week away from school has allowed me to sleep later than usual, watch slightly more television, and ease into a less intense pace of living. However, I had to negotiate my laziness and innate inborne reflex to treat time lightly to turn to the things we must do.
It was difficult, and I fell short.

However, the easiness of living allowed my mind to wander and think more extensively about some things, and to formalize some perspectives and to expand my know-how about how the human body works.

1. What we do next can change the future.
I settled on can, because it indicates potential and it's something that we can take up, but most of us don't. I believe future is set in stone and that whatever we do will contribute to that future that, so our contributions do factor/matter and it's best to make good donations.

2.Our choices take us on. Where is a good question.
Our destiny hasn't been revealed to us.

3. Bully thyself.
The human body is extremely adaptive and whether is it in training or facing life's crazy forces, we adapt and get stronger with greater resistance. So go hard and bully thyself. You'll feel on top of the world briefly. And you'll probably want that feeling again. So bully thyself, again.

4. Hold on to what you can and don't let go (easily).
Tenacity and veracity and also not giving up.
But while rebuking yourself and trying to give some motivating talk to yourself, don't say, "Don't give up" to yourself.
Your brain is a search engine and will immediately turn up all the results associated with what you just thought of, and because of this you will seriously consider giving up.
You could deceive yourself with a loud "Hold on!".

This is what a famous man famously said:

We must use time as a tool, not a couch.
-John F. Kennedy

Adieu.

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