Laziness

Laziness can be defined as the lack of desire to act or to do things. Temporary laziness, or rest, is often considered to be of great value. Permanent laziness is considered a negative quality such as a sloth.

The exams are fast approaching and I have only just started my revision. Why am I not worried or anxious about not being able to finish my revision? Can someone out there help me or give me a pushing force?

In the bible, Proverbs 20:13 says,"Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare." This verse in Proverbs address a certain work ethic that deals with a life discipline that must be cultivated in order to be successful in life, that is, overcoming laziness in the form of sleeping too much. Sleeping is, of course, a necessary thing for our bodies, just as eating is also necessary. However, when we overindulge in food, we become fat and unhealthy, just as an overindulgence in sleep will produce laziness, that in turn leads to poverty.

Discipline in the Christian life is one of the hardest things to attain and we all need the help of the Holy Spirit in order to accomplish a disciplined lifestyle. The Bible teaches that we should practice moderation in all things. <http://www.bible.com/devotionals/devote190.html>

Lord, please be with me and teach discpline and perserverance.

Formal Dinner

Last friday's formal dinner is the last formal dinner for the academic year. This means that exams are coming soon and the year 2005 is coming to an end. This year went past really fast. The first few months of 2005 was spent in TP, completing the last lap of my diploma and the last 4 months of 2005 is spent starting on my degree. Wow! I still can't believe it. At this time last, I'm still pondering whether I should send in my application. *pinches arm*.


Anyway, the theme for the last formal dinner of the year is Carnvale (pronounced as Car-nee-va-lee). Had a fantastic time..I enjoyed the food alot..Shoik!Enough of talk. I'll let all readers drool at the food.



For the formal dinner, I had my hand "tatooed" using make-up done by the courtesy of Nafisah.


For appetizer: Feta Roasted Red Pepper Crostini with Roquette



Entree: Creole BBQ Bourbon Beef Steak with Fried Onions and Baked Beans



Dessert: Banana & Macadamia Tart with Toffee Sauce



and Mango Swirl Cheesecake with fresh Cream & Strawberries

Maturity

Maturity? How is 1 to determine whether another person has the required maturity for their age? Who determines what parameters will contribute to maturity?


A Definition Of Maturity

*From Childhood and Adolescence:A Psychology of the Growing Person,By: Stone & Church, 1968 Can assess it at: http://www.uwec.edu/counsel/pubs/defnMaturity.htm/

Statements describing ot referring to a mature person:

1.If an individual is going to grow toward the kind of maturity we are talking about, he will find it helpful to have secure development, pre-adult underpinnings - he should not have to deflect his energies into "refighting" childhood battles or nursing old hurts. Maturity can only be built on sound foundations.


2.When a person can live with his past without being bogged down by it, he remains adaptable, capable of continued change.


3.Another characteristic of becoming mature is the development of wisdom.
The mature individual can be ribald or genteel, sweet or acid, jolly or glum. The important point is that he be alive, with vigorous interests that make him interesting to be with. He should have a sense of humor.


4. An important characteristic of the individual who becomes mature is that he is at home with reality.


5. The mature individual cannot look outer reality in the face unless he is prepared to look himself in the face, too. He is at home with himself.


6. It follows that the mature individual has to be able to love comfortably with his own body, whether it be strong or weak, handsome or ugly, healthy or failing.


7. If the individual's growth toward maturity is rooted in the positive emotional bonds of early infancy, human relationships are going to have a high priority for him.


8. The person equipped with the human sensitivities that make for maturity will usually have powerful concern with social problems and ways of alleviating them.


9. For all his social-mindedness, for all his savoring of human relationships, the maturing individual is not dependent on always having company.


10. It is apparent that the person who is becoming mature does not accept values readymade.


11. The mature individual has to learn when to conform and when not to conform, when to speak out and when to remain silent. His values must be so structured and scaled that he can distinguish between what is central and inviolable and what is peripheral and expendable - or at least can be postponed.


12. To live realistically (which by no means forbids the conscious exploitation and employment of fantasy) means to live in consciousness of one's own mortality.


13.The mature person knows that he has to go on choosing alternatives, that each alternative costs him something, and there are things he will never be able to do and experience. He also knows that there are things he will never be able to do again, that he can never recapture his youth or relive his first encounters with certain experiences. He knows that his integrity is continually threatened by practical demands, by seductive temptations, by concessions and compromises, by conflicting values, and can only be preserved at the cost of some psychic strain.

14. He knows that the only real rewards in life come with continued growth, and that there is no room in the one material life he has for major regrets. This individual who has approached maturity can know that he has loved, had done his work, has made his mark on people and, although he wishes there were more time, that he has made the most of what there was


In Summary: The adult with a capacity for true maturity is one who has grown out of childhood experiences without losing childhood's best traits. He has retained the basic emotional strengths of infancy, the stubborn autonomy of "toddlerhood", the capacity for wonder and pleasure and playfulness of the preschool years, the capacity for affiliation and intellectual curiosity of the school years, and the idealism and passion of adolescence. He has incorporated these into a new pattern of simplicity dominated by adult stability, wisdom, knowledge, sensitivity to other people, responsibility, strength, and purposefulness.

I only wished some people would just grow up!!!