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Well, today I finally decided it was time to commence pre-test cramming. With my Sociology CLEP coming up on Thursday, June 29, I have obviously reached the point of no return.
According to my pessimistic reasoning, you either study or fail. So I chose the former, more optimistic of the two options.
When preparing for a test, I undergo three phases of thought process:
- Procrastination – “The test isn’t for another (x amount-of-time). Why should I be burning my brains this early in the game? Well, I guess I could read the first few pages.”
- Acceptance – “Hmm, the day is approaching. I suppose I should read through the chapters and do a few practice problems.”
- Anxiety – “Oh, my goodness! The test is in (x amount-of-time)! I’d better cram cram cram!!!”
So, all in all, I end up studying the entire time.
I figure if I’m going to get anywhere in life, I have to put effort into my tasks.
Winston Churchill seemed to understand and convey this concept well when he said:
"I say to the House as I said to ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.
You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs — Victory in spite of all terrors — Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival."
As did John F. Kennedy in regard to the space program:
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
So I shall end with one of my favorite quotes:
“54º40' or fight!”
Just kidding. 
A man who didn’t give up said this:
“The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return.”
~General Douglas MacArthur
And he kept his promise too.
~Never stop trying.
Everyone reaps failure,
Simply by quitting.
To achieve our goals,
Let us press always onward,
Ever persisting.
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This morning I had to get my lazy self out of bed early, because mom and I went to clean Pastor Paige's house. Tomorrow is his wife's (Lisa) birthday, so we wanted to do something special for her. Mrs. Campbell made a meal, and--yawn--mom and I cleaned the house in a record amount of time while Lisa was at swimming lessons with the kids. So all I wanted to do when I got home was take a cat nap. 
I tried to study...but failed...I couldn't stay awake, but then mom called me for lunch...
