As you can see, that’s all my unversities accounted for, and I’ve officially been rejected for Cambridge. I am actually quite thankful for that. If God had wanted me in Cambridge, I’d have got an offer. It’s less complicated now, and I don’t have to weigh up Cambridge/Imperial College. I am incredibly keen on ICL at the moment. And God timed me getting an offer from ICL before my rejection from Cambridge. If it had been the other way round, I’d have probably been a bit depressed.
Today I was musing on why university learning has no appeal to so many people. It occured to me that nobody loves wisdom any more. She is like a desperate wife who sees her husband visiting prostitutes and starts to dress like one to draw him back. This country has fallen in love with trivia and raw knowledge. These things are hollow and empty without wisdom, and a love for truth itself. Our educational system has prostituted itself. Education is not about the knowledge received but the man created. We go to school to get a job. We go to college to get a slightly better job, we go to university to get a job that will pay us enough to get a big house and a fast car. There is no longer joy in the creation. In an atheistic society, we all focus on an end goal that doesn’t exist. We do not know where our lives are going, and yet we live in a future that will be every bit as disappointing as the present.
The virtue of the age is originality. The acheivement of a nation means nothing to you unless you are personally involved in it, and it changes your story. Only those who are happy are successful, and a pursuit that no longer feels right must be abandoned.
About.com gives you advice on evaluating relationships:
Is this relationship worth the amount of work required to maintain it?
Is this a person I would choose to have in my life if we just met today? Or have I been holding onto this relationship out of habit?
Does this person make me feel good about myself? Am I uncomfortable around them?
Is this friend competitive with me in a negative way?
Do I like who I am when I’m with them? Or do we seem to bring out the worst in each other?
How deeply can I trust this person? Could I count on them if I needed to? Could I share my feelings freely?
Do we have common interests and values? If not, do I benefit from the differences?
Am I receiving as much as I give?
If I gave this relationship the effort it deserves, would it benefit me and enrich my life?
After answering some of these questions, you should have a clearer picture of whether this relationship is positive or negative for you.
Circle the person’s name if you believe that the relationship is positive and supportive, or if it could be, given an appropriate amount of time and energy. Otherwise, cross off the name.
Well, I hope Jesus isn’t reading that article and thinking about me, that’s all I can say. My old maths teacher had a quote above his board that said,
The Mark of a man is how he treats someone who can be of no possible use to them.
