What Life Is

“Life is like a rolling ball. Sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down.”

It seems familiar, right? A plain yet significant quote that all of us is absolutely experiencing and can really be applied in our current situation. Take my life for example. Now that the prelim exam is on going, I’m certainly a little bit crazy these past days about the load of requirements, quizzes, projects and most of all the tedious exams. It’s too exhausting .My schedule is positively hectic that I’m not sure what to do first. I can perceive that I’m into the lowest point of the wheel that is being held down to the extent that I can’t anymore reach the top. I can sense that these necessities are slowly killing me, torturing me as if I’m a murderer or a criminal with a very immense case. I don’t know. This is what I feel.

Are these feelings also present to other students of IIT? Is this one of the reasons why lots of students in the said institution committed suicide? Well, I’m just wondering. I can very well say that my life here in IIT is undoubtedly different from the school where I come from. When exams come, I just study and shoot, it’s already done. The exams there are just in average level compared here that is positively, definitely, mind-crashing.

Well, aside from viewing these all odds as a booming problem, I’m also looking at the positive side- that these are just challenges from God in order for me to explore and share my God-given potentials. I strongly concur that how big the problems God gave to you; it also reflects how big the unconditional love of God for you. So we must be flattered by that. I think those students who committed suicide seems to have a bigger problem that they think they can’t handle anymore. But no matter how colossal the problem that I’m handling now, I will never think of suicide as the solution for such. We must be thankful to God for He is really showing, continually blessing us the graces that we sometimes take for granted. So relating back to the quote, I am struggling to face the entire predicament in order for me to be in the top of the rolling ball and achieved my dreams in life.