"The road to hell is paved in good intentions". This quote has never rang more true for me in the last month. As a student I base my performance in school through grades and test scores. I base my feeling on school as an entity on my ability to do well. Every day I intend to get down to business a new unforeseen challenge arises to try and prevent my steps like hidden quicksand on a beautiful stretch of woods. Thursday my home was broken into and among other things my laptop was stolen along with all the notes and work both personal and academic on it. My initial response was anger and disgust at the violation of the safety of my family home. I wanted to seek revenge and take justice into my own hands. I learned that the only justice is personal freedom from the situation meaning I will not allow my actions to be controlled by another individuals nor will I allow myself to seal my future through revenge like the criminal who did this sealed his. I have learned that the only peace I will find through the countless academic and personal struggles I am facing is to remember the mountaineers step and take small breaks as I walk uphill to the top. If I have to retake this semester so be it. If I have to rebuild everything in my life I will do so. My goal is the same as each student that attends college. I wish to better myself and I am learning that my grades and academic performance do not always reflect the growth in my own life. Take this post as you will but each of you who reads this can relate to the notion of perseverance and relate in some way. My message is clear. Do not measure your life on what the report card says or people say about you when you are not there. measure it in the achievements that mean something to you and you will never fail. I am not a life coach or an example of the model human being. My credentials do not state that I am a person of authority on time management or life skills. I am a student, a father, a lover, and a friend. I am failing most of my classes and I do not have perfect attendance. I struggle every day but I am here and I am me and I will not give up.
Well said. I think the hardest lesson to learn is that life is not easy and is always traveled in small, single steps.
ReplyDeleteLoving the positivity. Really stinks when you're robbed though isn't it? You just keep your outlook on things and karma will find its way back to that robber.It almost always works out in the end.
ReplyDeleteIm sure you will do fine in school.
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