"When You Say (Nine)"

How mellow... =)

Learning From Mistakes

So I really haven't written anything for the longest time. Since then and now, I finished my first term and it's also now 2010. (On a side note: It always amazes me when you see kids now who were born in 2005 or something. I always believe that they should resemble more or less like babies or toddlers but now they're already up and walking, talking, going to school...It makes me feel a little old.)

I am actually happy about my grades this term, I suppose studying more does equal higher grades. If you really know me, I am a person who aims high but who is incredibly lazy as well. For once, I actually studied more (as I kept on claiming I would after each term) and it did pay off. Now, I did still waste time during my claimed study time..but one step at a time...I am learning from my mistakes.

Learning from mistakes...
It's really not that easy sometimes, but I wonder what it takes for a person to realize what unfavorable path they are taking? We all know people like this, people you want to shake and say: "wake up, look at what you are doing!?!", people that are really playing with their personal life, health, future, etc...if that makes sense..

Even I, as I mentioned above, kept saying that I would study more every term and I didn't. I wasn't failing, but I wanted all As...I need all As from now on and at the beginning of the term, because of the choices I had made, there was a chance I wasn't going to reach that goal.

I leave this by saying something a prof once told us in lecture:
To be smart is learn from your mistakes, but to be wise is to learn from other people's mistakes.
He advised us however that life's too short to always learn from our mistakes and that we should be wise more often instead.

Courage

How do we define courage? A hero has a lot of courage, perhaps a leader has courage too. But today I realized that courage can be much more simple than that. Courage can sometimes simply be saying what you believe in regardless of what people will think.

Time - Mr Hudson

Someday, are we gonna wake up
A little bit older?
Are we out of time?
I know that, should we ever break up
We’ll find a way to make up
In the fullness of time

Tell me where d’you wanna be
When all your friends have settled down
In the suburbs on the greener side of town?

Time is all I fear
It’s why I just keep running
The quest for love was all that you and I held dear
With the beat still in your head
And the good book by your bed

And as your old man said
“Good friends, well you can count them on one hand”
And they’ll never judge you
Whatever your crime

I know that, I can include you
And you’ll forgive me
In the fullness of time

Time is all I fear
It’s why I just keep running
The quest for love was all that you and I held dear
With the beat still in your head
And the good book by your bed
We will survive, you and I