👾 We're all Frankenstein Monsters
Sunday Scoop #37 - This week, I share with you my thoughts which I've continuously distilled throughout the weekend.
Hey friends,
Since Trials are done and dusted with (they were tough, to say the least), I’ve been thinking a lot about whether I would trade in the time I spent with my friends/the hours I spent on my side projects to perform better in Trials.
I’ve invested hundreds and hundreds of hours on forging bonds with my friends and developing my passion projects.
Couple that with a laborious US Application, I’m cutting my A-Levels revisions extremely narrowly despite the catalogue of ‘productivity hacks’ I try to put into practice each day.
I’m going to share my thought below and I openly invite all of you to share your thoughts below or to hit <reply> to this email if you have some additional thoughts that you’d like to share privately.
Here are my weekend thoughts distillation (so far).
No doubt, if I spent less time talking to my friends about whether Bitcoin and XRP has an inverse relationship, how inner circle friendships work, or a million other random things, I may be able to cover that part of the Physics chapter a bit more thoroughly.
Sure, if I scratched the idea of A2KI, I may be able to save hundreds of hours and did more Further Mathematics past papers instead.
However, we humans are all Frankenstein monsters—patchwork quilts of past experiences—trying to pass ourselves off as whole and cohesive things.
Who we are now, how we think, what we wear, are all part of a larger canvas, splashed with colors of who we met, how they think and what they wore.
The conversations deep into the night with my friends allowed me to see the world through perspectives I may never have thought of, through experiences that I myself will never be able to experience, developing my mind in ways homogeneous thoughts cannot.
The passion projects I’ve had the privilege to run has taught me how to work with people, find out what drives them and ways to help them see my personal vision for their work.
I think I’m extremely fortunate to be placed in a situation where the time I’ve chosen to invest beyond my academics has added a fitting centerpiece to my patchwork, a dash of color to my canvas, tying up all the different aspect of my current personality and helping me grow beyond the confinement of classroom walls and textbook covers.
As of now, I think that as long as we find a way to keep our grades comfortably above our personal expectations, we should all endeavor to splash more colors, add more flavors to our patchwork quilts, for we are all Frankenstein Monsters, trying to pass ourselves off as whole and cohesive things.
Jia Shing.