Times like these

When it's less than 2 weeks to exams, you're crammed and saturated and blur with all the things you need to study, the weather's crap and you suddenly miss things like home and family and when it doesn't help that your Facebook news feed is full of happy celebrating home-bound post-exam friends and I'm stuck here knowing I should be studying but feeling like baking pies and eating said pies while watching TBBT and feeling terrible for not studying.

I'm no big bible quoter (or bible belt for that matter) but there's this chapter in Eccesiastes about there being a time for everything and I really do believe it's a gem of wisdom. It's how I get through times like these, and being away from those I hold dear for such long periods.

¹ There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:

² a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
³ a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
⁴ a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
⁵ a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
⁶ a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
⁷ a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
⁸ a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

A time for stress and a time for fun

A time for exams and a time for none

A time for studying and a time for random internet surfing

A time for home and a time for being away from it

A time for reunion and a time for separation

A time for kolo mee and belacan beehon and a time for...none

A time for east-bound flights and a time for the opposite

A time for sweltering heat and humidity and a time for dreary cold

A time for hugs and a time for making do with skype conversations

I'll survive. I always have, and will.