Recently I have a lot of work to be done. Hardly sleep, only 4 or 5 hours a day and spent most of my time reading in the library. I bet it is hard to keep studying while putting a huge chuck of time in personal growth. So much to learn yet so little time. Do I complain about the workload? No because it is wiser to spend the time to complete more work and stop whining like a kiddo.
Usually it is ourselves that make us “that” busy. It is again the improper use of time. We could have achieve more if we don’t check our emails now and then, we could have do more if we have a better plan before we do everything, we could have free ourselves from working non stop if we cut down the time having tea breaks. But again, you can be rich by cutting expenses, but you are still cheap. So pushing yourself to complete more in lesser time isn’t the priority, but it is a question of PRIORITIZE! So what matters to you most in life?
Admit it fellow students. Just think how much of your life is used doing your academic work today. I am not suggesting that study isn’t important but is that the way you want to live? Haunted by assignments the whole week? What about upgrading yourself before joining the workforce 2 years later? What about building your interpersonal skills? I think those are as important as your first class honour. You don’t get far in real life even with a 4.0 if you can’t interact with people. Your job is a business to your boss, and business is all about dealing with human relationships.
In fact, if you stop what you are doing and sit down for an hour. Think deeply and start visualizing your future. Assume that you got your first class, get the dream job that you want and have a big paycheck. Is that the life you want? Working all life long for a paycheck to pay your BMW every month while not having time enjoying your life because you are “busy”? Is life all about paycheck and working for someone else? Take a peek at what your boss is doing. Probably he is playing golf at Japan and having sushi for tea break and he don’t even have an university degree. Why? Because he leverages the skills in those who are smart. Welcome to the era of where the A works for the C.
In the same hour, think about your dream. Spending 3 months off to ski at Switzerland? Then think hard and don’t fool yourself, can your high academic result gives you that kind of life? Can your first class honor ensures that you can achieve your dream? I think you know the answer. So despite academic result is important, do keep in mind that it is only a small part inside you and try not to allocate a large chunk of your time on that. Think what is your dream and start something to achieve them.
Remember those primary school days where we dreamed of a lot of things? What happened to them? Do you realize that we don’t even spend time thinking about them anymore? We got numb with all the work we are doing, we forgot about what is the meaning of life to us. I know it is hard to feel this way but just imagine that tonight you are going to leave this world, can you shout that you can go without any regret? I bet not, including me.
We are too distracted on how people see us. We want to be “normal” just like everyone else. We are taught to study for 10++ years and no one bothers to tell us the world is more than that. We choose to ignore, we don’t want to think about so many things and hence we are too focused academically. So take an hour, sit down, and open your mind, eventually you will feel that you are so tiny, even you just scored an A+ just now in your mid term paper.
“What I know is that I know nothing” - Socrates
