Stage 1: "Hooray ! Exams are over !!! The Summer vacation is finally here ! It's party time !!!"
about a week later ...
Stage 2: " Wow, where did that week go ?! Anyway, I'm going back home !!!"
about 1 week later ...
Stage 3: " What ?! It's 3 in the afternoon ! But I just woke up ?! "
yet another week later...
Stage 4: " Where did my life go ??? Someone please take me back before I develop teenage dimentia, or my muscles wither due to inactivity".
I think it's safe to say that this is an anecdote that many of us can relate to. It represents the typical emotional stages that an average ( or even not so average) college or school student goes through during the first 2 - 4 weeks of the summer vacation. So alas, I find myself at Stage 4, my mind is bleached of all thought, the elaborate plan I had for my summer vacation has fallen in a battle with laziness, and I am desperately waiting for something to spice up my life ; that in the last two weeks has become a bland and barren place.
Now parents always have an abundance of ideas, one must admire the activity of their right cerebral hemispheres. They are full of advice and plans. " Go to the gym" they tell me, " Learn to drive, go to the bookstore, finish all your homework , learn to ..." , all these ideas are brilliant, and I would surely do them, if I were a hardwired robot running on nuclear fuel with an infinite supply of red bull. What I'm saying is, it would take something out of terminator to fullfill all my parents wishes. Nevertheless, I do sometimes try to follow my parent's advice. I joined a gym ! Unfortunately, I got a flu the next day and I havent been able to go the gym after that. You see, parents are always right, and you better believe it, but they dont always understand that their son/daughter is a human being. Humans have limitations, both physical and mental, they are funny creatures that need more than just commands to function properly ... for futher details , please study psychology. ( Parents are great, please don't take any offense)
I think we are now at the point of this discussion where we discuss a cure for a bleached mind, sources of spice, something to gently lure us out of stage 4. Well I never said I would have all the answers ! If I did, I would have been out of stage 4 a long time ago. I do however, have an idea. As I mentioned before, we are humans, we cannot deliver on a list of commands before we are convinced that in doing so, our mental state would have improved in some precise way. Humans need reason, and they also need progressive improvement in order to sustain their command fullfilling energy. So today I have written this blog, I have done something productive, my hope is that this may drive me into doing something productive tommorrow, and eventually, I hope that there will be an increase in my productivity. I dont know if this is going to work, but when you're stuck at Stage 4, you gotta try something right ?
