Hello, all.. Y’all miss me? So I’ve decided to do something different with my blog today and make it personal, personal and just share with you what has happened in my life since my last blog. Hopefully, there will be a lesson or word to take away from it somewhere.
SOOOOOO...where do I begin?
I started my A levels on the 13th May and booooooy were they mighty fine. I remember thinking that the questions that came up could’ve been taught to me in a few lessons and it got me thinking about why A level are so intense. Yes, the exam boards are epic losers, but a lot of the hardships that come, we put upon ourselves.
I was talking to Ben the other day, who is one of the smartest and most hard-working guys I know, if not the hardest, and even he was stressing about flopping his exams???!!! In the conversation, I had realised and said to him that sometimes it is the doubting of our own abilities overthinking of the what-ifs that make A levels notoriously bad.
Then I used the analogy of Iron man and Dr Strange *spoilers, but it’s really your fault*:
- I believe that if Dr Strange had told Iron man the one possibility in defeating Thanos, in which Iron Man dies, it wouldn’t have happened because either Iron Man would try to avoid death or in overthinking his end, things would have not happened the way they would’ve for him to be in the predicament he was in with Thanos
- I don’t know about you but there have been many times when I have had an easy exam question and I flopped it because I was overthinking and doubting my abilities. So as Ben says, go in with a ‘mo bamba mentality’ (I have no idea what that means) and understand that you are more than capable. (I just checked again and he said ‘mamba’, ha lol, still don’t know what that means).
Then I had another Classics exam, (can you believe I didn’t know the answer to the first two one-markers...AY CURUMBAAAAA), then History and English.
- What’s so mad about my History exam is that we had the questions that came up were literally the last ones we had practiced in class and the day before my English exam, I had listened to a voice recording of answers to one of the questions.
- These exams, even though I already knew, showed me that God really is a ‘funny’ God and that everything we do, when we trust in Him, all comes together, working for our good. It also showed me why it is so important to seek God’s guidance.
- Our last history mock I did, I did it without Him and I flopped, as in like I winged the questions, which I’ve never done, then in my real thing I answered the same question well after casting my cares on Him. Hallelujah ooooooo
- I am not stupid without God, but He is the one who bring to action all the great things within me, from every nook and cranny (my dad says this and it makes me cringe, lol)
SIDENOTE: GUYS , I DON’T REMEMBER WHEN IT HAPPENED BUT I’VE ALSO BECOME VERY WHIPPED ON A GUY. HASHTAG OH NOOOOOOO HASTAHTAG SNAP OUT OF IT
- I also lost my two pack, and started spending money more to revise in libraries, rip
- And I think I’m getting taller :(
- OOOOOO YEAH THAT REMINDS ME: someone actually, actually stole my charger. Should I laugh or should I cry? I also lost my oyster and I haven't done student finance that was due yesterday
- On the plus side, I think I’ve gained weight, I think...
Last week I also learnt a lesson that I can’t stop thinking about and that’s acting promptly. It was the Word but I also think it applies beyond Christianity. So my Bishop was saying that we should act promptly when God tell us to do something because we miss out on what He has in store for us. It got me thinking and in life, there have been many times when I have envisioned something or set a goal and it did not take flight from there because I did not act promptly. There are many things that require the ‘now’ time and can only succeed then, yet we are shocked when things fail when we do them later. Moreover, not only does the zeal you initially have for something fades as time goes on, when we do not act promptly we allow doubt to seep in, which leads to compromise. In both your religion with God and life, when you compromise, the result you do end up getting is essentially nothing.
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Erm…...Yeah, that’s it.
Here’s some quotes to sum up my month:
- “And I oop-”
- “Hashtag Ouuuuuuu”
- “Thank you God”
- “God is Good”
- “What question did you?”
- “What library you going to?”
- “Can I borrow your charger?”
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