With out culture presentations approaching, another idea for blogging came up: we could write about which presentations we're planning to see and why. Yeah. We could. But these days, it's been all about planning. Plan your time, plan your studying, figure our when to take which exam, decide on your presentations... Just planning, planning, planning.
Of course organising your time is very useful and very helpful in more stressful times. I'm not against it. It's a matter of opinion, though. I don't hold time organisation in very high esteem. Perhaps because it's always come so easy to me that I've never had to do it consciously. Or perhaps it's simply because I know I would stray from any schedule I'd create for myself, and I really don't want to guilt-trip myself for doing something so entirely human.
And this is my point, really. A general idea of when to do what is perfectly fine, but sometimes people want to plan every minute. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I was just thinking how it must feel when they go against the plan instead of following it. I don't know about them, but I'd feel disappointed with myself.See, just another thing I've failed to do right, and I would fail if I tried to plan out every moment of my studying/work. Why? Because I'm human. Because things happen. Sometimes, I get up on the wrong side of bed. Somebody pisses me off. I catch a cold. My room-mate drives me crazy. I cry over my fandoms. Somebody dear to me needs a pep talk in the middle of the night. I can't sleep. Things happen, and I'm in no condition to study. But it's okay, it's still okay, because there's no plan breathing down my neck, and sure, there are still deadlines, and silent curses in my head, but I'm not going to tear myself apart for needing a break.
So no, I don't plan everything. I don't want to. There are enough limitations and deadlines as it is, without my imposing more on myself. And if anyone's reading this, I want to tell you it's okay. Things don't always go according to plan, and that's okay. Don't beat yourself down.
Which presentations I'm going to see tomorrow? I don't know. I'll print out the timetable in the evening, take a look at it in the car, talk to my friends online, and meet sometime in the morning. And then we'll see what sounds interesting.
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