Saturday, May 19, 2012

Journal 51: The Best Laid Plans


The most challenging difficulty I faced I life must has been the time when I thought I was prepared for the High School application test in Taiwan. During ninth grade as the test date neared all students were very nervous and all started to plan out their review schedule accordingly. Because I missed the seventh grade school year in Taiwan, I really do not have a appropriate schedule for reviewing. Even when I tried to concentrate on reviewing, I started to get frustrated because there were so many questions I do not know how the answer due to my lack of learning in seventh grade. I then hypnotized myself that I will know the answer just by “reading” questions without doing them, and I will just know as time goes on or when the test date arrives. I was also somewhat influenced by my peers that the test is going to be easy; this made persuade and soothed me even more that everything is going to be fine. However, when the test came, I soon regretted that I have not put all my heart into reviewing. I felt like I have been awaken from a dream; I was forced to face the truth of needing a good reviewing plan. In the next two months, I gathered myself up and wrote a complete preview plan. I worked accordingly o the plan and made devotion to abstinence of using the computer and watching TV. My plan worked well. On my second and last high school application test, all subjects of the test improved. This taught me to face any dilemmas in life instead of trying to escape by consoling yourself; only by confronting unpleasant truths and weighting both sides of an issue can one clearly understand the choices and make the right decisions.

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