the key

It’s this period of struggling with projects that many of us students look for ways to cope with the stress. I’ve had my fair share of just staring at the news feed page of Facebook today, waiting for people to update about themselves.

It’s this period that always gets to me; to which I mean that I struggle badly with this period. It’s something about the need to juggle both projects and doing tutorials which lags back my motivation metre. I haven’t have had good experiences with this period in the past; staying up for a night without sleep to rush finish a project, doing the same thing the consecutive week. It’s quite a sanity-sapper.

It’s this period where loneliness starts to creep in a bit for me too. MSN has been kind to provide a few friends to talk to online, but at stretches I’m just slogging away at work while I wait to find some kind of human contact to remind myself that the voice in my head is not someone speaking to me, hohum.

I know I don’t speak of this much but I’m glad I’m a Catholic. Sometimes the chaos and randomness in our heads can and will get a bit overwhelming. At least I can turn to something, something to ground me in life and at least for a moment remind me that work is not everything. That when your priority is aligned correctly, everything falls into place.

And that’s how you stay sane everybody; remembering what you’re living for.

~ by briantlim on July 13, 2009.