Time Management

In the spirit of playing catch-up from this weekend, and knowing I still have a lot to study for my test tomorrow-- this once again will be short and sweet. Yesterday, I kept trying to find things to do for other people. I was in school all day, so there a lot of cool ideas I came up with just were not practical or attainable. I thought and I thought and realized that, sometimes, you just can't create an opportunity. When my last class started, we got some news. Background: we were supposed to have a midterm. Our professor promised he would narrow our studying focus by giving us a study guide of potential questions for the essay. He never did. We waited and waited and e-mailed the whole week with no response. Everyone was a little on edge. Would we still have it? Would we all fail it? How should we study? Background over. So we get to class and the professor gives us a good news/bad news announcement. Good news: No midterm today  Bad news: It's a take home midterm with three essays and due Thursday. We also have another test tomorrow, so having to do a long take-home midterm was pretty rough. But my opportunity to choose love came up! One of the girls in my class, who is incredibly nice and works really hard, asked if I would please look over her essays after she finished them to make sure that she was on the right track. I wanted to say no. I had a test to study for, my brother's birthday, was meeting with a friend for something extremely important, and had my own essays to write. Busy girl! But she works so hard and really seemed desperate. So I said yes! She is lovely and deserves to be helped, even if it is just a bit more work for me. I thought it was so funny that I was looking for an opportunity all day to help someone and then when the opportunity came to me my first reaction was to say no because I am so busy. I am glad my mouth somehow said yes instead. It's a process, but I am definitely getting a little better at choosing to love others!