Just last Sunday I wrote about how fun it was to try rock-climbing right? Well, my arms and back were aching for 2 days after the climbing course. Hahaha.
It's quite easy to say "No pain no gain!" In reality, we do complain, we do sigh, we do scream when we experience the pain because of the effort we put to gain something. We sigh when we have thousands of pages to read, I complained when I had to climb the stairs after dance practice, and so on and so forth. This experience is worsened by the fact that a lot of instant things are offered by this world. Hungry at night? Cook instant noodle! Pissed off with someone? Tweet your feeling!
Compared with my uncle has to study and work at the same time for 7 years to get his bachelor's degree, I'm kinda lucky because I can focus on study without thinking about tuition fee (for now at least). Need journal articles? No need to go to library and find the hard copies, just key in the keyword and "whooosh", articles appear on my laptop, but I am still lazy to read articles despite this privilege.
When people talk about discipline, whether it is in study or in physical training, they remind me of some talks that my friends in Opus Dei gave to me: the importance of spiritual discipline. Yes, I do feel that it's getting harder to sit still and just listen to God in my room. The laptop is here, the phone is at the other side. Very sad, right? I mean, to spend just 15 minutes in the morning to sit still and talk to the Creator, who never disappoints you, who never has bad mood and abandon you, who always always and always listen to you, laziness still obstructs you. But yeah..we need this discipline coz prayer is supposed to be like breathing, without burden, and we do it because we LOVE God and God has loved us in the first place.
When I was in high school, the nun told us that "You must study everyday minimum 4hours!" At that time, 4 hours sounded sooo much, but in NUS, if we study properly, actually 4hour-study is not enough. Now that I am thinking about it again, it's not a matter of how long you sit in the reading room, but how you should build the habit of studying consistently till you don't feel it as a burden.
So yeah...no pain no gain!! :)
It's quite easy to say "No pain no gain!" In reality, we do complain, we do sigh, we do scream when we experience the pain because of the effort we put to gain something. We sigh when we have thousands of pages to read, I complained when I had to climb the stairs after dance practice, and so on and so forth. This experience is worsened by the fact that a lot of instant things are offered by this world. Hungry at night? Cook instant noodle! Pissed off with someone? Tweet your feeling!
Compared with my uncle has to study and work at the same time for 7 years to get his bachelor's degree, I'm kinda lucky because I can focus on study without thinking about tuition fee (for now at least). Need journal articles? No need to go to library and find the hard copies, just key in the keyword and "whooosh", articles appear on my laptop, but I am still lazy to read articles despite this privilege.
When people talk about discipline, whether it is in study or in physical training, they remind me of some talks that my friends in Opus Dei gave to me: the importance of spiritual discipline. Yes, I do feel that it's getting harder to sit still and just listen to God in my room. The laptop is here, the phone is at the other side. Very sad, right? I mean, to spend just 15 minutes in the morning to sit still and talk to the Creator, who never disappoints you, who never has bad mood and abandon you, who always always and always listen to you, laziness still obstructs you. But yeah..we need this discipline coz prayer is supposed to be like breathing, without burden, and we do it because we LOVE God and God has loved us in the first place.
When I was in high school, the nun told us that "You must study everyday minimum 4hours!" At that time, 4 hours sounded sooo much, but in NUS, if we study properly, actually 4hour-study is not enough. Now that I am thinking about it again, it's not a matter of how long you sit in the reading room, but how you should build the habit of studying consistently till you don't feel it as a burden.
So yeah...no pain no gain!! :)
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