Circle

The next worst thing to things getting worse, is getting stuck.
Well, technically the longer we're stuck, the harder it is to get out of it. So in that sense, things are getting worse.

I thought I moved forward. But then, I regressed.

Now I NEED to move forward again. Hopefully by two steps. Or at least 1.5, or maybe 1.1 steps.

On side note, I hate performing terribly in exams despite what I thought was full preparation for it. Luckily, it's a redeemable exam.

Now press on towards taking 1.1 steps forward!

Evidence of self-absorption?

To not matter to those who mattered.

This thought itself could be counted as yet another evidence.

1 Corinthians 13

¹ If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Reminiscent of kamikaze

BBC News - Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis

Whoa. I'm not sure about how the logic works: that older people are less likely to be affected by the radiation. Regardless of age, they'll have a higher likelihood of getting cancer / dying earlier for sure.
Nonetheless,
salute their selflessness.

This post was trivially edited to correct the totally-fail grammar.

Studying is boring

But it is a privilege too.

Make the most of it.

Turn to who?

When all around,
there's no people to turn to,

turning to just one
and just that one
is enough.

For at the right time,
when asked
what is needed
what is best
is always given.

Now.
Already.
All the time.

Let us run with perseverance

"And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.

For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. "

Extract of Hebrews 12:1-2

I remember (the first part) of this saying. It was on the wall of the swimming complex in school. Very conveniently within eye view of those are running and panting, - very encouraging when we complete our routine 3 rounds of 400 m jogs ("runs", really, we cannot take longer than only 2:20 per round), or as we run the 2.4 km for the NAPFA test.

Another quote on the wall of another building in school is this:

but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint

Isaiah 40:31

(:

I love my Fridays and Saturdays.
Hope to keep the same level of spirit on Tuesday-Thursday.

Etiquette for a Lady

is an amusing blog.

Here's some quotes from there.

Otherwise we become robots.
and should try to bring them up instead.
The strongest relationships have a depth that requires such sight.
When the unacceptable past or present become reasonable.