The Impact Letters Can Have...

With A-Level results fresh out of their envelopes and GCSE a sunrise away, there is a huge number of young people who are currently bricking it. To be honest, who can blame us?

From a ridiculously young age, we are made to believe that a bunch of letters lined neatly down a page will dictate the rest of our lives.

I'm guilty of being a believer of the above and probably always will be, but that's how I am. I always have to have something to stress about, nonetheless, it's a horrible thought to realise that when it comes to the crunch...you're going to be judged based on what you did in an hour and a half of one day of your life.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that exams should be ended or that this is wrong; I hold the generally functionalist perception that you need exams, so that the cream rises to the top, however it really sucks if on an exam day, the cream is feeling a bit curdled. If you do badly...that's you gone.

Exams do need to be taken seriously, because they count for a lot, but not for EVERYTHING. Look at Sir/Lord Alan Sugar and Richard Branson....they never finished higher education, yet they are both millionaires!

Unfortunately, that was luck. Not everyone that drops out has the fortune to start a multi-million pound company and be set for life. A lot of millionaires are just reaping the fruits of their own hard work and effort, rather than thanking the person who drew their numbers in the raffle of life.

There will always become points where you'll just feel like slamming a book shut and sticking it through a shredder and when you do feel like that, take a break. Just don't give up, because you don't get to that point without having put a considerable amount of effort into your work. It happens when you've worked so hard for so long, that your brain has begun to scream, "I can't take it any more!".

There will be times when you ask yourself what it's all for and when that time comes, look to someone who inspires you. For me, it's watching MPs on BBC Parliament, looking at Barristers and Mr. and Mrs. Obama, because none of them would be where they are today if they hadn't stuck it through the hardships and jumped over the hurdles that come with tremendous effort. I also have an extremely supportive friend who I have labelled my mentor, because she brings it all closer to home. She's hard working, focused, determined and celebrating being accepted at an amazing Uni to do a course she's always wanted to do.

If it's no one in particular that inspires you, then look towards things that you want to achieve. As sad as it is, I spend ridiculous amounts of time flicking through the Oxford website and University League Tables, telling myself that if I work hard enough, I'll be there one day. After that, the rest does itself. .

With the right inspiration and motivation, the dedication just comes naturally.

Hard work will never cease to pay off and you will always be rewarded, so even if you don't get the grades you needed to follow a certain path, don't be put off!

Carry on working hard, because everything does happen for a reason and I promise that you will find something better suited for you, that you will love just as much.

For now, all I can say is GOOD LUCK!!

More Lists...

Someone said that they really liked my lists and wanted me to post the rest of the ones I'd written that day on here. So err..here goes!

Things that make me smile:

1. Random people who smile at me.
2. Charlie McDonnell.
3. Old people who walk around humming to themselves.
4. Free stuff.
5. Japanese tourists taking pictures of cracks in the road. (WOW!! How exciting!!)
6. Boys who walk with their trousers halfway down their legs and with a limp, in order to look 'bad'.
7. Thinking about that guy I like.
8. The confused and fascinated looks that babies have on their faces after they sneeze.
9. When people follow me on Twitter. @DreaWintour *HINT*
10. David Cameron's lack of lips.
11. Charlie McDonnell.
12. Compliments

Things that piss me off:

1. FOBs adding me on Facebook and asking me to arrange a Visa for them.

2. People who lie for no reason.

3. When you open a pack of starburst and there are barely any red ones.

4. Pouring myself a bowl of cereal, then realising there's no milk.

5. The Go Compare adverts. (I will destroy that company one day)

6. The Coalition Government

7. Being pissed off.

8. People who smell on a Monday morning.

9.Boris Johnson's hair.

10. Boris Johnson's voice

11. Boris Johnson's face

12. Boris Johnson's laugh

13. Boris Johnson.

More will come soon...

Politics Schmolitics

I've been asked by a few people why I don't blog about politics, even though I seem do a lot of politics related things and go on a fair bit of politics related rants (and with this ConDem government, who can blame me?).

My honest answer to that is:

I LOVE politics, but I don't think that I currently have a large amount of knowledge and insight into it, for me to write about it and for others to read it. Also, blogging is something I do to get the random thoughts that pop inside my odd brain, out of my head and for me to try and understand some things better. It sort of explains why most of my blogs are quite easy-going 'lifestyle' blogs. They act as a form of mindless escapism for me and hopefully, to those who read them. Maybe one day, I'll pluck up the courage to start another blog, containing a more political/intellectual content.

For now though, you'll have to put up with my rants and ravings about boys, books, hilarious and awkward situations and other little topics which show what sort of mood i'm in and that I obviously have too much time on my hands. Haha!

=)

We're all the same really...

I recently finished a book called 'In Praise of Older Women' by Stephen Vizinczey. This book had been recommended to me by the friend I previously referred to as my 'partner in crime', who (not that it's in any way relevant) seems to have a ridiculously good eye for great books.

This hilarious novel and various others really opened my eyes to the reality that men and women are very similar.

We both spend ridiculous amounts of time analysing things that they [the member of the opposite sex] do and what they could mean and lead to. A lot of the time, we're like Ronseal. We do exactly what it says on the tin. When we say something, it's not to create mystery or got a bunch of subliminal meanings attached, we mean exactly what we say. For example, if a girl says that she's not interested, she's NOT playing hard to get. She is genuinely NOT INTERESTED.

So why do we complicate things?

When we like someone, all forms of reason and logic seem to escape us, because all we can think about is this person and the prospect that we will one day be with them, regardless of the far-fetched-ness of such a thing happening. It's that, that leads us to overlook the simple things and look WAY too far into the meaningless ones like an accidental hand graze.

Both genders panic about the other and seem to be baffled when it comes to wondering what the other thinks. I've spent countless hours wondering what boys think and say when they're around each other and i'm sure plenty of guys have wondered the same about girls.

I think there's a complex simplicity about ourselves which we seem to lack the ability to grasp, that makes us think that we're all so different, when really, we're the same. We're just too busy wondering what that look meant, to see it.