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Dear Sir Lloyd,
Thanks so much for your column.
As early as now, I’m excited to go back to school and try to apply
your philosophies. This would be a great school year for me. This is
my last year in school and I can’t wait to graduate and make jobs
look for me. Is there any other advice that you can give me as I get
to finish this one more year?
[Name withheld]
Dear buddy,
What an enthusiasm and excitement
you got in there! I seldom know a person getting as much as excited
as you are before going to school. To many, vacation hangover
becomes so real than they are but a long-gone past. You’re a rare
individual!
Well, I think I have something so
simple for you. Instead of dwelling much on the “back-to-school”
advertising and marketing campaigns, I encourage you to tell your
friends: Carry that school passionately on your back.
The problem with hundreds of
thousand students here and even abroad is that they don’t mind
carrying the loads associated with them being students. Well, they
carry some but too lousy that in the end, they don’t enjoy it at
all.
But is there really a joy in pain
of carrying the “school on your back”? The answer is yes.
However, they can’t happen at the same time. As I always believe,
your choice could only be between pay now and play later or play now
and pay later.
Taking the first one seemed to be
very hard. Uhm, yes, it is very hard. People won’t understand you
but hey, later on, sooner than you can think, they will. Choosing
the second one is dangerous. The price to pay is higher when
anything is paid after using what you bought. You bought the time
and opportunity for you to learn in school, and sure enough you’ll
end up paying for it when you graduate.
The key is: Pay upfront.
There are times in our lives that
we’re always required to choose which way to go. And several
times, it takes us too long to decide which way. In the process of
delaying those decisions, we eventually find ourselves either a
failure or just a survivor.
I don’t really have a problem
when you survive. Life is about survival, right? But if you want
more life out of life, then you just don’t choose to survive. You
choose to live. And there is a thin line between living and
survival.
In the coming days in your
school, make sure your activities would mean “more life” in the
next three to five years. Invest your time. Don’t spend it like
most people do. Make sure you join activities that have something to
do with what you love doing, or becoming. The secret of success is
in the doing, not in the wishing.
The school on your back? Why not?
Whether you like it or not, there are realities that we can’t just
change. Whether we believe they’re real or not, some things are
just real that we can only cooperate with it, or we suffer.
When we got to school, we carry
the burden of beating the deadlines, finishing those assignments and
thesis, memorizing those notes and so much more. But think about
this: If you don’t accept it, you’ll carry those burdens and yet
won’t enjoy some rewards in it.
But, when you learn to just
realize that carry your school on your back with passion and
dedication, and belief that this is just another season in your
life, and then there will always be a joy in pain. That is, when you
understand that it’s always cheaper to pay upfront than to pay
later.
To your life best designed,
LLOYD LUNA
[Lloyd Luna, the author of Is
There a Job Waiting for You?, is a career philosopher, a website
engineer and a motivational speaker. He is the president and CEO of
LLOYDLUNA Communications. Do e-mail at lloyd@lloydluna.com
and visit www.lloydluna.com. To send message type LUNA <your message>
send to 2299.]
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