"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Time

~Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
~Katherine Mansfield

SO glad it's almost the weekend! Can't wait to hang out with some friends I haven't seen in two months :) So, I wanted to share something I have been more aware of lately. It sounds stupid, I am aware, but I have noticed that time doesn't stop.

See, I told you, sounds obvious. But then, it's really helped me the past few weeks. It doesn't matter how much we are dreading something or how excited we are, it will come at the same speed as everything else (even if it doesn't always feel like it). Some days, that's what gets me through the day. When I can look at the clock and realize all those classes and tests and presentations and papers have to be done or turned in in however many hours. There is no way around it. Days like that, I seem to numb myself to everything going on around me and time just goes by.

Yes, it can be frustrating that it won't speed up. Sometimes I would like it to just stop, just freeze life where it is-either to enjoy what I'm doing or to take a time-out from life for a minute. But I can't, and I honestly think that's kind of cool :)
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