While pursuing your degree and throughout your career, make a conscious effort to know God to some degree. It is a pursuit that will set you apart from your competitors and provide a depth of character that goes beyond mere professional expertise.
We will be so great that putting the stories of our journey to greatness together to form a single piece will be someone's lifetime job and the source of their generational wealth.
Sadly, the very things that people complain about, how open and free you are, how easily you share your smile, your over-kindheartedness, your confidence, will be the very things they will miss in your absence.
Tell a tired student that dedication and consistency still pay off, late nights still produce great results, hard work and a sharp intellect remain invaluable, pain and frustration are simply part of the journey to greatness, and it's OK not to feel OK right now.
Joy is coming.
There are friends that can give you whatever you want, relatives that have the capability to organise a meeting to put up a decent get together for you and all your friends and strangers that can go all out for you in any way.
The real problem is you are still alive.
Our loved ones turn into earth to become manure for our crops and soil for our buildings. The very people who once made the surface of the earth pleasant for us lay low below us, making every step a memory. Sadly, it is a fate for us all; it is just a matter of time.
Even if you will not be a good wife or husband to your partner, be a great mother or father to your children. You made a choice; they didn't have a choice.
Yielding to the addiction is not when you gave in to its pressures. You actually gave in when the first thought of it crept into your mind, a space where no one can see. Overcoming demands more than cutting off physical actions. It demands cutting it from the roots, The Mind.
The judges might not be on your side, nor will there be your favorite among the audience. Be fierce, be brutal, so that the knockout becomes undeniable.
You see how it feels to do group work with people who oppose your contributions, yet know nothing about the work and bring no contributions of their own? Imagine if your spouse were like that, and you had to live with them for your whole life.
We will be so great that even the sight of our gravestone will kindle a flame in the hearts of our generation and generations to come, let alone the mention of our names.
There is no lack of architectural plans in the world; if you don't start laying the bricks for your own goals, you will inevitably find yourself carrying the mortar for someone else's empire.
Be conscious of whatever you engage yourself in, be it conversations, visits, or other activities. At the end of the day, no one goes to bed neutral; you are either defiled or refined by your interactions.
Every interaction, every environment, and every voice we allow into our space acts as a catalyst either chipping away at our character and peace, or polishing it.
One day, you will think deeply about whatever used to cause you pain, disappointment, and heartbreak. But this time around, you will look up and smile because the pain has become a testament to your resilience, proof that you can overcome anything.