"The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." [nicola]
I love holidays. I love the fact that you can sleep in, and think that you’re ‘catching up on sleep’ even though you end up staying awake ‘till 3am the next night flicking through pictures on a random’s facebook page.
I love it how at the start of the break you have good intentions to study and suddenly find yourself at the end of the week having completed 21 quizzes on some dodgy quiz page (what colour crayon are you?… I’m blue) and still haven’t quite find the time to clean the bathroom or open the chemistry book.
Having said that, this week has been quite eventful, here are the top news stories;
- Olympic torch was lit in Greece
- Holi in India
- Mammoth motorway accident in Austria
- Wedding rumors for Brad & Ange
- Jamila market in Sadr city (Iraq) was destroyed
- French president had a cup of tea with the queen
- Earth Hour
- Nicola lost her camera
Ok, so perhaps not the last one, though its nice that society has their priorities straight. 😐
I think that it’s good that Melbourne jumped on the shiny green bandwagon to herald earth hour. From the bedroom window I can see the city, so my brother and I waited to see all the lights on the Rialto switch off while sitting in pitch black ourselves. I was thinking of posting some photo’s up from earth hour, but realised you’d be just staring at black squares. Haha…
…well, I think that it’s funny.
Philosophising about uni life again, it really does seem like a journey of a thousand miles, and like Lao-Tzu said, ‘…(it) must begin with a single step.’ Ok. So I start, I take one step [towards the chemistry book] and I will enjoy the journey. “To get through the hardest journey we need only take one step at a time, but we must keep stepping.” Chinese proverb – you gotta love the Chinese! (Who also happen to be real good at Chemistry, so they know what they’re talking about).
In summing up, so what if the first few weeks of uni sucked? Start over, make this the first step of a thousand miles, and enjoy the journey!
Ciao.