Hard Work

Today I was talking to a friend who asked how school was going. And I realized that I say, "School is great! It's a lot of hard work but... (insert positive things here)." Why do I do that? Why is it that I list hard work as a negative thing. I had not even realized I was doing so, because it sounds so passive the way I say it. Yet still, I list it as negative. Why? Because it eats my time? Because it challenges me? Because I don't like it?

There is so much more to hard work than that. There's the fact that without it, I wouldn't get very far. With hard work comes growth. With a challenge comes an opportunity to rise to it. When I apply myself, I learn so much more than when it is busy work. What else would I do with my time? Read? I am reading now. Go on the internet, because that is so much more productive than the hard work. Walk around? I still have time to do that! (You have to get from class to class)

So really, as much as it pains me to say this, the hard work is what college is really about. I am here to learn, grow, and to challenge myself. Without those three elements college would just be a really expensive get away camp for kids who don't want to grow up. Hard work should not be said with a negative connotation. It should be said with a smirk and squinted eyes. Like you see it and the first thing that comes to your mind is, "Bring it on."

Now that I've gotten this off my chest... I have to go apply myself to a particularly disliked challenge...