The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever. - Paul-Muad'dib to the Guild navigators, at his confrontation with the Emperor Shaddam IV.
As expected, I done poorly for the common tests. Most of the papers I took are already returned and analysed for mistakes. However, today my class temporary Form Teacher and our Mathematics Teacher whom we usually dislike his lessons and laugh at his antics, shared with us a message. He called upon one of my classmates to read out the message, and which he did. "Procrastinating, Delegating, all of these do not make us happy as we did not do our best to confront the problem. The whatever short-term victory or joy would turn into a long-term defeat. In that case, the way to long-term victory is to absorb the short-term defeat right now and use the knowlegde gained to turn it to the ultimate victory in the future." That was one part of the speech. And that could summarise the entire message the teacher have for us. Yes, we would feel better if we did not have to do or do any homework, saving it for another day, maybe copy a friend's work at school or asking other people to do it for you and stuff like that. Well, who likes homework? But the exercises are for us to build confidence, speed, momentum, greater understanding and more attributes helpful in our tests, exams which lead to our future. We should stop running away and stand firm to confront the problems. Whether homework, class work, CCA stuff, office work, whatever. If you continue to just procrastinate and do stuff like that, the short-term victory can really turn into a long-term defeat. Our future could be wrecked. I got the idea of the message. And I'm really gonna work on it. Hope those of you who "slacks" gets it too and start pulling your socks up. Life is never easy. We have to reach out and grasp every opportunity for a better future. It's gotta be us, not the friend whom you copy your work, not the subordinate you delegate your work to. Us.
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