On Studying and Reading

I admit that I can be really lazy when it comes to studying. I’m the type who has to make all excuses imaginable just to avoid to have to sit down and let my brain cells absorb a bunch of words and information. For me, it’s a grueling task that I have to push big time on myself. In the back of my mind, there are a lot more important things to be learned in life that doesn’t require studying. But I’m also the type who just can’t take a major exam without studying first, in spite of my anti-study attitude. Fortunately a contradicting side to my anti-studying self exists, the side which has made me survived school until I earned a college degree, the side that made me reach this far (well, not that far yet.) Maybe it’s also the reason why I have high aspirations for myself, or at least I used to. I used to want to become a doctor all my life, until recently. But going there is another story. For now I just want to write about studying. Boring but I find myself thinking about this big boring grueling task and I’m even blogging about it!

There’s something about studying that’s fulfilling. As much as I can be against it, it’s actually a great way to waste spend time, even just reading. No doubt about that when it comes to reading, especially when you’re reading a really good book. But in my case, I was reading and studying something not interesting at all. It’s about our blood cells, minute biological creatures in nature that causes illnesses to humans, organisms that we can’t even see, with names and terms that almost seem like tongue twisters and are just sooo hard to remember; What could be really interesting about that? I mean, it’s not like I can’t be happy anymore and be successful in life if I didn’t know what they are. But still I had to learn about them. I had to review all about them all over again because it’s what I chose to study in college in the first place and it’s what I will do for a living. I have to know about them to pass an exam. So I read and studied, as much as I did way back when I was preparing for the board exams. It took a really large load of self-discipline for me to do it. Heh! After I finished a subject a while ago, (which took me days, by the way) I felt really good about myself. There’s a sense of accomplishment and I felt fulfilled. I almost forgot what it feels like, now that it’s been months since the boards and the last time that I actually did it. But I’m glad to be back in the game. I hope to remind this to myself whenever I feel that I would rather watch TV than study and learn.

After these American certification and licensing exams, I’m definitely reading books other than textbooks. I haven’t read novels or anything in that category for more than a year now. I’ve missed what the hype is all about when it comes to the Shopaholic book series, Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code and the list just goes on. It’s always textbooks and I’m left with no other choice. But it can’t be that bad in some ways, now that more great works of fiction are being made to big movies. I can now enjoy them in another way. But still, nothing can compare to reading. It’s like a really wise investment for yourself. I would like to actually read and love reading as much as I say I do, even if it’s just textbooks.