My Confusion and I

If you didn't know it already, I am getting extremely close to the end of my long road of education. After 12 years of school and 3 years of University I am going to get to put on a black cape and a strange hat to pretend I am in a Harry Potter film for a few hours. This might seem like a relief, and believe me it is, but it is also terrifying. I am now suppose to grow up, get a job, figure out what I want in life and achieve it. But that is not the purpose of this post because I think we all know how students feel about the question "so what are you going to do after university?". By getting closer to graduation me and probably a lot of my friends have started to experience the competitive side of your coursemates. Suddenly the topic on everyone's lips has gone from 'what results you get on your exams' to 'who's got the interview with the company they all applied to work for'. This has come to the stage when your previous coursemates are becomin...

Here we are the first day of the new year. Our Facebook news feed is full with statuses saying Happy New Year, New Year is trending on Twitter and everyone seems to be analysing the previous year and decide what they are going to do differently this year to make their lives even better. Usually I promise myself to do all these things such as exercising more, eating healthier, studying more and spend less money and believe it or not, I always end up breaking the promises after about a week. So this year I've questioned myself, why do I even bother to promise myself all these things when I know I will break them sooner or later and just end up disappointing myself?  The answer is clear, there is no good reason for me to do this so I decided not to promise myself any of these things and instead actually focus on what I already have. So for 2014 my New Year's Resolutions are Promise myself not to promise myself to do anything. Yes, this makes no sense at all in one way but w...