Well greetings once again to those of you who follow the world of blogging! Whilst it has been a quite enjoyable sabbatical, I realised that despite all the other things going on in my life (Year 12,
Needless to say, this blog will be quite different from my last. Mainly I will not be updating as regularly as I used to - a few times a week at most. Also I plan to share with you some of the great wonders of the internet which have previously been unnoticed by many - just interesting little titbits that I pick up here and there. So to begin, a quick summary of life so far this year, ups and downs:
- New relationship
- Winning 1st VIII Head of the River 2007
- Realisation that Year 12 is a bitch
- Ruin of aforementioned relationship
Also, I came across this, as a summary of the year that has (not so recently) gone by:
"At the end of 2006 I looked back on the year and thought a lot about what I’ve learnt. No doubt you will have made some of these discoveries yourself, but I thought I’d share them with you. I’ve learnt that you don’t need to earn big money to be happy with your job – during my time spent at Woodside I saw this over and over. I’ve learnt how good it feels when you give everything you have and come out winning – my time in the 2nd VIII taught me you don’t have to be the best to feel good about what you do. I’ve learnt that losing isn’t so bad and can in fact make you stronger – both the Nationals and my rugby season showed me this. I’ve learnt that while first love is the sweetest, it’s also the most painful and can teach you the most. Perhaps most importantly, I’ve learnt to appreciate what I’ve got, take every chance I can and always pick myself up after a fall – and if I can’t, I’m grateful for the friends I’ve made who will."
Obviously I've missed a fair bit out, but these grey areas can be filled in later. More importantly, the present is what counts. Sure, our experiences in the past help us, nurture us, make us grow, but much of these experiences remain ours and ours only.
Finally, I'd like to leave you with a quote that isn't mine. It’s something that you will also notice on the side of my blog. A truly inspirational quote, from a truly inspirational man.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
~Coops
