Dance in The Rain While Waiting for the Thunderstorm to End
As I grew up, life taught me a good number of lessons. One lesson I learned recently was, when being strong is the only choice you have, you will end up being strong even without you realizing. And, you will get used with being strong. Definitely not bragging about myself, at times when I sit in silence and look back at my life, I feel proud of the journey I came through in life.
Unlike most of the young people my age, I never get to enjoy life. I have less friends, and my days are always congested with work and studies. I do not have movie nights, friends outing or sleepover at a friend's place. Nothing! All I have is stressful study nights and restless working hours in the day time. There were times were I could not take in more. I felt where my life badly needs a break. As I said, I was not enjoying my life, I thought :)
But, now being a grown up, having a brain that functions pretty well, I realized that I'm enjoying too, in a different way. I finally understand that we should not waste our time waiting for the thunderstorm to end, let's dance in the rain while waiting for the rain to stop instead. I started to enjoy what I'm doing. I started to love my studies. Instead of boring study sessions in a silent night, I played soft music in the background while writing down my notes. When I find a chapter or topic which is unusual, I do more research on it which makes the entire study process interesting. I take breaks in between, step off my study table for a mug of hot chocolate while standing at the balcony looking at the dark sky. About 15 minutes later, I get back to my revision. Sooner, I loved studying and sometimes I even look forward to be home after work so that I can study longer.
I used to have troubles sleeping. Just thinking that I have only few hours to rest itself made me sleepless. I would be dead tired but I could never sleep. The thoughts of being restless in work next day made me even more stressful. So, I started to change the way of me going to sleep. I will set a time that I will go to bed, for an example 12am. If I'm going to bed at 12am, I will make sure I'm all prepared by 11.45am. I put away my mobile phone and lie down, just closing my eyes for about 10 minutes relaxing. A meditation in a way, I believe :) Surprisingly, without me even noticing I'd go to sleep. The next day will be refreshing even if I sleep a little late the previous night.
As a conclusion, what I would like to say is, life is all about what you think. You are what you think you are. You will be what you think you will be :)
Unlike most of the young people my age, I never get to enjoy life. I have less friends, and my days are always congested with work and studies. I do not have movie nights, friends outing or sleepover at a friend's place. Nothing! All I have is stressful study nights and restless working hours in the day time. There were times were I could not take in more. I felt where my life badly needs a break. As I said, I was not enjoying my life, I thought :)
But, now being a grown up, having a brain that functions pretty well, I realized that I'm enjoying too, in a different way. I finally understand that we should not waste our time waiting for the thunderstorm to end, let's dance in the rain while waiting for the rain to stop instead. I started to enjoy what I'm doing. I started to love my studies. Instead of boring study sessions in a silent night, I played soft music in the background while writing down my notes. When I find a chapter or topic which is unusual, I do more research on it which makes the entire study process interesting. I take breaks in between, step off my study table for a mug of hot chocolate while standing at the balcony looking at the dark sky. About 15 minutes later, I get back to my revision. Sooner, I loved studying and sometimes I even look forward to be home after work so that I can study longer.
I used to have troubles sleeping. Just thinking that I have only few hours to rest itself made me sleepless. I would be dead tired but I could never sleep. The thoughts of being restless in work next day made me even more stressful. So, I started to change the way of me going to sleep. I will set a time that I will go to bed, for an example 12am. If I'm going to bed at 12am, I will make sure I'm all prepared by 11.45am. I put away my mobile phone and lie down, just closing my eyes for about 10 minutes relaxing. A meditation in a way, I believe :) Surprisingly, without me even noticing I'd go to sleep. The next day will be refreshing even if I sleep a little late the previous night.
As a conclusion, what I would like to say is, life is all about what you think. You are what you think you are. You will be what you think you will be :)
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