In these last two days though, I have had a bit of a....funny...experience. My Thursdays are absolutely packed with classes. I spend a full quarter of my day in just two of them! All in all I spend around nine or ten plus hours doing school stuff, not really including homework time. Well I spent a lot of Wednesday, especially Wednesday night stressing over how I was going to get everything done. Then I spent most of Thursday dreading whatever was coming next, even though I had done all of the preparation ahead of time, getting ready to complete my labs, studying for my quizzes, and doing my homework. By the time I got through it all though, I realized it really wasn't so bad, and was not quite sure what I had been stressing out over. I mean, sure I was tired, but I wasn't at wit's end. I guess that just goes to prove that old proverb,
If ye are prepared ye shall not fear.
Now I wasn't quite on par with that saying, as is apparent since I still was "afraid". But that's just because I was not quite wholly prepared; I left out one important step: trusting myself that I could accomplish what I prepared to do. If you haven't developed confidence in yourself, you haven't quite prepared.
Now wait a second, am I saying that you have to be confident to be confident? Why does that make any sense? How do I ever start to develop that confidence in the first place? That's a good question. Now hopefully this is a good enough answer to match. More than confidence, it's a matter of trust, and not making things out to be worse than they are. There really are some situations that we honestly would not be able to overcome. However, I'm going to promise you right now, whatever it is that you are facing, isn't one of them. Now everyone is different so not being a psychologist who has spent an hour or two picking your brain I can't even begin to tell you how to trust yourself. But maybe by now you have come to trust me a little bit. And then it is my hope that you'll trust me when I say that you are a fantastic individual, and that you can do it, whatever it is.
What would life be without dreams? And if dreams weren't aren't achievable, we would still be in the Stone Age! Welcome to the realm of humanity, where we make impossibilities possible.
And you know what? If you relax into the flow of it all, you may find that you enjoy yourself. For example, I had a total blast taking pictures of everything I was looking at under the microscope:
The previously unseen is there just waiting to be discovered, just like your dreams.
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