Nothing is predetermined in a world where things can always change. I just watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “School Hard”. In this episode, Buffy is miserably failing at school. Her slayer duties are getting in the way of her schoolwork, so that her GPA has dropped to a dangerously low level. To say the least, principle Snyder is constantly on her back. As if things couldn’t get more hectic within her busy schedule, she is responsible for setting up Parent-Teacher night at the school, when her mom will be coming to check on her progress…and meet with Snyder. Poor Buffy is anxiously anticipating her grounding when two new vampires (Spike and Drusilla) make an entrance at the school. They crash Parent-Teacher night and unleash other vampires to feed and kill. Buffy is now faced with the task of getting everyone to safety and killing each and every vampire in the building. Her mom ends up saving her from Spike by braining him with an axe. This episode made me think about what’s currently happening to me in college. I think I have so much homework and I’m so busy and it couldn’t get worse, but it really could. I should rather value what I do have and the fact that worse things are not happening to me. Buffy always seems to persevere, so I suppose I should too. If life is going badly, it can’t continue forever. Nothing lasts forever, and fate can always change. Everything happens for a reason, and the human race just has to live and learn from it while preserving some kind of hope.
I'm really glad I read your blog. I usually only read the blogs about Firefly, but I also feel like I have so much weight on my shoulders from school, family, friends, homework, homework, homework, and more homework. It is hard to think that things will get better when you keep sinking, but thanks for brightening my day...well, my night. As you said, this stress can't continue forever. (:
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