Had my quiz yesterday...and it's a big killer! AHHHHHH!!! :S It is really putting me like ants on the hot edges. Well, work harder next time ba...ha... :X
But I still hold the words my dad told me when I was young -- 先苦后甜。Eventually, I soon realise that the meaning of these words behind can be illustrated by the course of the river that I learnt back in DHS in physical geography. There are also many famous quotes that relate to the rivers like "True love is never a smooth course" and "逆水行舟，不进则退“。Let me illustrate on it a little further...
In general, the river starts to flow from the mountain (highland area) to the plains (lowland area) because of the natural gravitational force that makes it flows downwards. The speed of the river is also the highest from its start to its end. Because of its high velocity, it is able to carry boulders, big rocks and pebbles down the stream.
As the river flows downwards, part of the forces it carries is offset by the frictional force along the river banks and the river bed. It can no longer carry the boulders and hence these big rocks start to settle along the river banks on the upstream, followed by the other big rocks and pebbles, and eventually the particles and sendiments on the downstream and the plains.
So what's the point of taking a deeper look at this nature course?
Well, for me, I see it as a course of our learning process, especially for students who are in the midst of their exam preparations.
For the start, when we picked up a new skill or learning a new theory, we would very often come across many questions and problems that can be as big as those boulders. This is the period of time where we have the most number of questions in our minds as we are still unfamiliar with it. This is the same as the river for it carries the most number of particles with it here.
Yet the learning process is usually fast for most of us because what we learn are the basics. Very soon, our problems are also settled one by one. This is illustrated by the river speed in which it is the highest at the beginning, and also the boulders and big rocks which start to settle along the river banks on the upstream of the course. The significance of the big rocks settling down first is that we usually manage to clear the major questions we have for the new knowledge such as "What is the use of it?'.
However, the start of our preparation for exam is always tough and full of inertia, like the numerous inevitable forces acting on the river as it goes down the stream. We are often tempted to give up half way because of all these forces and all the temptations that appear to make our life much a better place to live in.
But I still hold the words my dad told me when I was young -- 先苦后甜。Eventually, I soon realise that the meaning of these words behind can be illustrated by the course of the river that I learnt back in DHS in physical geography. There are also many famous quotes that relate to the rivers like "True love is never a smooth course" and "逆水行舟，不进则退“。Let me illustrate on it a little further...
In general, the river starts to flow from the mountain (highland area) to the plains (lowland area) because of the natural gravitational force that makes it flows downwards. The speed of the river is also the highest from its start to its end. Because of its high velocity, it is able to carry boulders, big rocks and pebbles down the stream.
As the river flows downwards, part of the forces it carries is offset by the frictional force along the river banks and the river bed. It can no longer carry the boulders and hence these big rocks start to settle along the river banks on the upstream, followed by the other big rocks and pebbles, and eventually the particles and sendiments on the downstream and the plains.
So what's the point of taking a deeper look at this nature course?
Well, for me, I see it as a course of our learning process, especially for students who are in the midst of their exam preparations.
For the start, when we picked up a new skill or learning a new theory, we would very often come across many questions and problems that can be as big as those boulders. This is the period of time where we have the most number of questions in our minds as we are still unfamiliar with it. This is the same as the river for it carries the most number of particles with it here.
Yet the learning process is usually fast for most of us because what we learn are the basics. Very soon, our problems are also settled one by one. This is illustrated by the river speed in which it is the highest at the beginning, and also the boulders and big rocks which start to settle along the river banks on the upstream of the course. The significance of the big rocks settling down first is that we usually manage to clear the major questions we have for the new knowledge such as "What is the use of it?'.
However, the start of our preparation for exam is always tough and full of inertia, like the numerous inevitable forces acting on the river as it goes down the stream. We are often tempted to give up half way because of all these forces and all the temptations that appear to make our life much a better place to live in.
Yet if you manage to pass through them, you will eventually find peace and happiness soon after. Have you notice how calm is the river flow in plains? And what left behind in the downstream of the river are only the particles and sendiments that suspense in the water body, difficult to be noticed. If only you persist through, even though there are still questions and problems, but they become so much smaller now that they are hardly noticeable.
Do you notice the change in the flow of the river and how it can relate to our learning process now?
Juz one thing to take note is that true enough, the river course is also changing from straight to more bends in the plains. Life is just like that too. The beginnig of our learning process is simple and obvious as to where it will go next. Yet when we finish one phase of it, we will soon realise that there are many more phases waiting for us to pass through them before we can finally proclaim our success. Thus, the process MAY look more complicated than before, just like the bends in the river course.
Yet has the river stop flowing? No! I recall a quote that I have read before: "Never take the mere bend of the road as the end." Well, that says it: Never take the mere bend of the RIVER as the end! We should never discourage whenever we come across the little "bends" in our lives, just like the river will ignore the bends in its course and continue to flow, and flow, and flow, and flow......
Anyway, HAPPY EASTER DAY (in advance) to everyone!!! :D We shall never forget the sacrifice that Jesus made for us, and thus we should also set ourselves as good examples for we serve a great God here...yeah...lol
"So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised." ~ Hebrews 10:35-36
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