The pleasure of hard work

While fellow students in my class have slaved away for nearly 8 months, trying to produce an essay of worth, I left it to the last minute. While they sucked balls even though our teacher was quite evidently not bothered and would much rather prefer hacking away at her laptop than teaching the class, I decided not to give a shit right until the deadline. And yesterday, almost unwillingly at first, I found it in myself to finally go ahead and begin on a 5000 word essay about something I really couldn't care less about.

As I stared blankly at my screen, temptations started to whisper at me from deep within my sub-conscience. I think at one point, after staring at a blank word processor screen for 15 minutes straight, I had a crazy urge to look at photographs of horses on Google images. This was the extent of my utterly self defeating boredom.

Nonetheless, a good friend of mine suggested a nice online radio, by the name of Mountain Chill. As soon as the first note rang from the first song, I entered a blissful state of mind. At ease with my situation, unconcerned by the implications that failure would provoke, I began typing. From about 8pm till about 2am into the night, I had written the large part of my essay. I went to bed that night very chilled out and woke up in an equally hopeful mood. 8am. Only 6 hours sleep. That wasn't going to slow me down.

I worked hard. Wrote a paragraph. Read it over 10 times before moving onto the next one. Then read over both paragraphs 10 times again before moving onto the next, and so forth. I redrafted over and over again till in my eyes at least, I had reached as close as I could to perfection. I even had enough time to write a full 1500 word review for a game I had been playing for the past few days. Assassins Creed: Brotherhood.

And I didn't stop there. I went on to record footage as well as audio and to produce a full video review which will be posted up here very shortly for anyone who wishes to view it.

The point of this blog may be a tad unclear but I'll try to summarize. When faced with an seemingly impossible task, do not back down. Have a clear and logical mind to ask yourself, is it a battle worth fighting? The answer my case, yes. And then put on inspirational music and just get on with it. Cut off all interaction with the outside world and just do it. Pure and simple.

The pleasure that derives from it is immense. Although it may not seem like much to any of you, from my perspective, I can now look back on today and say, "Yeah, I got on with it, got lots of work done and I'm very proud of myself."

Till next time,


-Leutrim