I've started to think of homework and these review assignments in an analogy, and for some reason it's helping me out, so I thought I'd share. I view these 22 review assignments as having to get hit with a yardstick 22 times. It hurts like a dingbat, but you just have to take it 22 times, and then it's over. The first few times, the stick was new pain that I hadn't experienced before, so I dodged the stick a few times. (Didn't do assignments 5 or 8) But all this meant is that I still had to take the rest of the beatings, but it would take longer. I had to receive all 22, and if I dodged one I was only prolonging my torture. To make matters worse, every day we have regular homeworks as well, which feels a lot like getting shoved into a deep hole and having to slowly climb your way out, searching for footholds and sometimes not finding them. (Good thing we have some passes that allow Mrs. Walters to pull us up out of the hole) By the way, I in no way intended for the nun in the photo to embody Mrs. Walters. I never felt as though she was dealing out the whipping just some invisible force. Mrs. Walters is a great teacher that we'll all be grateful we had when we're in high school, and she's pulled me out of that hole several times. So now I've been taking this beating for a while, and the hits aren't surprising. I'm climbing out of the hole again and again, because I know if I continue to do so, soon I won't be whipped or pushed back in again for another 2 and a half months. After I began thinking of it like that, I haven't missed an assignment because I know that if I do, I'm only prolonging the pain, and it'll all be over soon. Oh how I look forward to that.
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AuthorChris R Archives
October 2013
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