Tuesday: Still a long rowed ahead…

Oscar Kingham
Aug 22, 2017 · 2 min read

Starting off today fairly easily, missing the first day of school for a week can do wonders. Reading the morning reflection for today, I think, hey getting out of bed was easy today, but tomorrow, getting up an hour and a half earlier, in the cold and dark, I really am going to struggle. Tomorrow, will I think about nature doing its duty and getting up? I guess so, but it’ll be a struggle, it always is, but I have got up every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the past year to get to training, so I most likely will tomorrow. Getting up for training or even school, I do feel like I have a duty, even when the warm, comforting blankets call to me, I persevere through it and get out. Do I miss the warm bed? Yes, for a while, but once I wake up I’m ready to go, usually.

“Meditations” today will focus on what is in and out of my control, I will start with rowing. Rowing is something that I have complete control over, but at times it feels I don’t, when it gets though, tiresome, grueling even, I think, my do I do it, I can quit right now if I want. But I don’t quit, although it seems I want to, I don’t, is it perseverance, being a gluten for punishment or is it something else? Maybe deep down I do enjoy it and I know it is something that will benefit me, perhaps forever. Rant about rowing aside, I just can’t help it, it’s just such a big part of my life at the moment, things that I don’t have control over, is the trains. Although, I do have control over which train I catch, so I always catch one that gets me to school 30 minutes early, a bit much? Probably, but it’s better early than late. Other things that are outside of my control, is what marks I get and how people judge we, well to an extent. I can do my best on work and behave well, which will get me mostly in control, but other factors always have something to say.

Wrapping this up because it is getting a bit long, today was more Stoic than yesterday, although that’s not saying much, I still have a bit of a ways to go in dealing with people, thinking about the evening reflection, which I quite agree with by the way. Anyway, hopefully tomorrow’s even more Stoic.

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