For well over a month I have been going on about life here; how it's great if you've got something to do, though when you don't, you think of home straight away and you get sick and a million thoughts run to your head about anything and everything and it, at times, can be horrible. So, to counteract that, I have been pre-occupying myself with many things. I surely must be a world champion at all the windows games - Hearts, Solitaire, Pinball, and Freecell. As well as Nano Rally and Doodle Jump on my Ipod. I've even been playing the playstation which is weird for me. I've come up with a song on guitar, I've designed a house, I've collected things, I've watched movies, TV, music videos, I've even grown a beard - there's not much else I can do. And so far, I've been doing alright. Sure there are moments where the only place you want to be is home, but most of the time, it's enjoyable and I love every single thing I'm doing.
Though there is a point in time in everyone's life where your thoughts start to take over you and control your feelings and the way you are, and it's here where champions are made. Those people who want to be professional in Sport need to go through painstaking hours upon days upon weeks upon months upon years to reach the top - and there is no doubt a time when their mentality hits rock bottom and everything around them says 'give up'.
I'm not trying to be any sport star over here, but I am fighting a battle. I am going through a test harder than anything I will ever get at school, and I am having to work harder than I have ever worked for. The test to ensure that my thoughts do not take over my brain and leave me in a slump of frowns and withdrawal.
The northeast of Australia is facing it's darkest hour - an hour which will last for weeks. The floods that have inundated 22 cities and towns forcing over 200,000 people to evacuate - 3 so far who were not so lucky. Floods that are the size of France and Germany combined, and beyond. Having scaled all of Germany and France in the last month and a bit, I can only imagine the devastation and the nightmare that the people in an area that size would be realising.
And for those people, it is the same test. Immediately, they need to ensure that their lives are safe and that their loved ones are protected. In the long term, they face the battle of returning to their damaged homes and communities, and go through the struggle of repairing. For now though, in the back of their heads will be the countdown of time before the floods clear and they can go back to their homes.
To wait for this period they need to go through one of the most difficult tests of mentality and need to get by day after day to keep their spirits high.
Obviously the people of the Northeast of Australia are in a much more horrible situation, but both situations require the same intrinsic values - be strong mentally before anything else, don't let the negativity of the situation overhaul you. Think of the people who will help you get through it - know that you will never want to lose them after it is over. And Finally, Wait - have the strength and patience to wait through any way that you can summon.
Life can put you in many situations over time, one of which is putting you under the test just to see how much you can handle away from the things you need the most, in all many different ways - floods, earthquakes, depression. Clearly my situation is in no way nearly as bad as those above, but follows the same concept. And gripping the concept is hard. Overcoming it is the test. Never give up.
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