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Sticking It Out - Thursday, March 15, 2007
School's going alright. Tomorrow will wrap up the last week before finals. My hardest final is on Monday, so all my efforts are going into that class. I'm doing well in my other classes, but I have another final and a project due on Tuesday.
I caught a cold sometime last week which evolved from a mere sore throat to congestion, headache, coughing, a slight fever, and eventually very severe asthma-like lung inflammation that resulted in wheezing and shortness of breath from even just walking to the bathroom. For the first time in several years, I found myself using my inhaler more than once in a day. It helped, but not well, because what I had wasn't exactly asthma.
Fortunately, thank God, that bad part lasted only a couple days. I'm not entirely well, but it's only mild sinus problems now.
These past couple weeks I've found myself forced to evaluate the direction of my life. I can't just keep being content to let the current carry me along. Pretty soon I'll be graduating, and going into the workplace, and possibly supporting a family (gasp, me and kids?). I can't keep being apathetic, and I have to be wiser about the decisions I make, for they won't affect just me. I need to be proactive about improving myself, but most importantly I need to be relying on Christ who gives me each day to live.
The title for my post comes from a comment my Linguistics professor made to me after class today. He told me that he was glad that I stuck it out through the course. This was because I had bombed a couple assignments in the beginning of the course, by skipping problems, when everybody else was acing them. I hadn't gone in for help when he made himself available, and that made him really angry and he actually told me that I should drop the class. But I told him I would change, and I studied harder, and made sure to get help when I needed it. I eventually made up completely for my grades by doing extra credit problems on the later assignments. That class is the only one I can already say for sure that I will get an A in.
Life is like that, too. You'll fall, sooner or later. But when you do, don't wallow in your misery, get up! Learn from your mistakes, and use every experience to make yourself better. Stick it out, and do nothing less than your best. In the end, I want to be able to say that I didn't waste my life, but that I made each day count.
I caught a cold sometime last week which evolved from a mere sore throat to congestion, headache, coughing, a slight fever, and eventually very severe asthma-like lung inflammation that resulted in wheezing and shortness of breath from even just walking to the bathroom. For the first time in several years, I found myself using my inhaler more than once in a day. It helped, but not well, because what I had wasn't exactly asthma.
Fortunately, thank God, that bad part lasted only a couple days. I'm not entirely well, but it's only mild sinus problems now.
These past couple weeks I've found myself forced to evaluate the direction of my life. I can't just keep being content to let the current carry me along. Pretty soon I'll be graduating, and going into the workplace, and possibly supporting a family (gasp, me and kids?). I can't keep being apathetic, and I have to be wiser about the decisions I make, for they won't affect just me. I need to be proactive about improving myself, but most importantly I need to be relying on Christ who gives me each day to live.
The title for my post comes from a comment my Linguistics professor made to me after class today. He told me that he was glad that I stuck it out through the course. This was because I had bombed a couple assignments in the beginning of the course, by skipping problems, when everybody else was acing them. I hadn't gone in for help when he made himself available, and that made him really angry and he actually told me that I should drop the class. But I told him I would change, and I studied harder, and made sure to get help when I needed it. I eventually made up completely for my grades by doing extra credit problems on the later assignments. That class is the only one I can already say for sure that I will get an A in.
Life is like that, too. You'll fall, sooner or later. But when you do, don't wallow in your misery, get up! Learn from your mistakes, and use every experience to make yourself better. Stick it out, and do nothing less than your best. In the end, I want to be able to say that I didn't waste my life, but that I made each day count.