another encore
The New Year’s reflection spirit has captured my consciousness once again. As I take my first few steps into 2007, I quickly see how different of a year it portends to be. Without a great deal of reliance on speculation, 2007 will be the year of my first apartment, the year of an internship with career-relevance, and the year of clear graduate studies focus. It’s just a hoard of importance crammed into 365 days.
Where my inner motors were once-2006 concerned with maintaining inner, mental function under the pressures of balancing physical capacities, every bit of my intellectual faculties will be assessed this year, at least more so than before. 2006 was an elliptical trainer stuck on HIGH as 2007 will be an excruciating Oxford entrance exam/interview.
To some it may sound as another nuance of pure exhaustion, but this year has a clear distinction of possibility the last year could not equal. 2006 provided a chance to eventually breathe a superlative sigh of relief; 2007 could give me the opportunity to experience the incredible satisfaction of personal performance.
As a starter, I am trying to finish up Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged before the new semester begins. What a brilliant work! That it’s a horror to some friends of mine to read Rand is a true crime.
What many inspirational conversations I am involved in seem to have a common thread: read, hear, learn, do. Keeping with the New Year’s encouragements, that will be my offering to everyone for 2007. And if I were to simplify that for those afraid of major commitments with verbs, then just Read. One caveat, make sure your diet contains a wide-range of authors and subjects, libraries are not to be evaded.