Quote of the day: “I never wanted and I never cared before, now I take it back, this is a new day.” As I Lay Dying
Groan of the day: Girl: What is the difference between a baby elephant and a matter baby? Guy: What’s a matter baby? Girl: Nothing, I’m fine.
Yep, so as I write this I wouldn’t be able to tell you if I was happy, sad, or something in between. There’s lots for me to be excited about. Monday Economics class ends, this week school is over, 24 days until my fave holiday (Boxing Day), and 5 weeks until I leave home. But in addition to leaving the ghetto college I’ve been at for three years, other things have been happening that have made me sad and other things have made me very confused. But yeah, I didn’t come on here to pour out my heart…
I came on to talk about perseverance. My dad told me before I took my first college class that the trick to college is perseverance. I would go so far as to say perseverance is the trick to almost everything.
I’m not getting a degree in history in a week cuz I am smart...anyone that knows me or reads my blog knows how dumb I can be. The thing was, whenever I was doing bad in a class, my rants wouldn’t let me drop it…so I tried hard and stuck to it and came out with B’s.
Three years ago I also picked up guitar…and quit. I wish I hadn’t, I know for a fact you don’t have to be talented to play the stupid thing—all you need is perseverance. But I quit and now what do I have? I new guitar sitting here in my room laughing at me.
What is scary is that I’ve found the whole perseverance thing goes with human relationships as well. I’ve had friends that when things got tough, I just let them go. Someone would move, they’d leave my church—I’d say “cya” and that was that. It is amazing I have any friends lol. But the ones I do have, are the ones that even through distance and disagreements, stuck with me, and I with them.
And you guys want to hear something embarrassing? I used to be in the school of thought where I thought the more girls I could get the better. I was so bad I was thinking of ways to ask one girl out while being able to stay with the girl I was already with. Relationships I would get in would always be one day things, and when they would call me again I would like push them off. Wasn’t until after a few month of being with Erin that I fell so head-over-heels that I quit it and decided to persevere.
But yeah, don’t quit what you start—and don’t start something planning to quit. I have already forgotten everything I learned in math and science, but perseverance is a lesson I hope never to forget.
