{sigh} Time sure does fly. I totally intended to post while on vacation while I was in a supremely thoughtful and reflective mood, yet I never got around to doing it. While the almost cliché statement: “Time flies when you’re having fun.” Is at times true, I find that unfortunately time is flying by me not really caring if I’m having “fun” as it whips past me.
Time flies by me as I work, almost constantly now, on schoolwork and perhaps the few things I manage to squeak in-between the constant barrage of school work. Life, I have noticed is like that. There’s never enough time to actually do what you want to do. That’s why, I think perhaps that it’s best to try and find a job that you enjoy doing, because then, it isn’t work, it’s what you enjoy doing. I’ve had a taste of what this is like, and I enjoyed it… until I found myself of the edge of burning out and just not finding the job as fun as it once was. Looking back, I remember wondering why I felt the way I did; why I didn’t enjoy my work like I once did. I realize now in hindsight that it was probably God preparing me to leave. He after all, knew that I would be heading to another part of country where I would have the opportunity to develop my skills even further.
Five classes are considered an extremely challenging load at my school, since many of the classes are art related and require high amounts of creativity for each little project and assignment. I found last quarter that my creativity was feeling a bit drained as I fought to push myself beyond what I thought I could do so that I could do well. In the end, while I certainly wasn’t as good as some of my classmates, I had improved greatly, which is one of the key things at this school. It’s in every syllabus: “Showing up to class and doing all assignments, without progress, does not constitute a passing grade.” So my aim, is to learn all I can, and do my best to improve… which I have been, even if I don’t readily see it.
