It's Your Life, Plan It.

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I know how frustrating it could be to be around disorganized people - even those who couldn't get their acts together. Sometimes I feel it's from a place of comfort; they are so comfortable within their space and they don't want to push themselves any further because they prefer how things are going. It's frustrating being around someone who wouldn't even understand what he or she is doing and why.

It's even more frustrating because it doesn't just affect that person but also you, indirectly in a way so that's why we try to push them to do the right thing because we also don't want things spilling over when we are still trying to sort out our own lives.

Have you ever heard the phrase: "If you don't plan, you fail"? That's right. Life is also about planning and if you don't plan your time, those who know how to plan their time would plan it for you just as it was said that if you don't have dreams for yourself, those who have dreams would employ you to keep their dreams alive. When we don't plan then life has its way of planning things for us and we have to fit in whether we like it or not.

For a student who wouldn't study for exams, when the result comes out, he or she would have to find a way to clear those carryovers. The system has been designed and carefully planned to keep you on the spot if you won't plan your life.

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I had this roommate back at the university, I think it was the 2nd year. Anytime we wake up to read at night he wouldn't want to read. He would brag the night before about setting alarm and even inform us to wake him up but then the alarm goes off, he would wake up to turn it off and go back to sleep. He did this for a long time until we got to the exam week.

We were to have a paper the next morning and we all woke up around midnight. His alarm went off again and he hit the snooze button. I was angry and had to wake him up to at least take his life serious for once. He said I should give him till 2 am and he would wake up. I woke him at 2 am prompt and as he reluctantly stood up, forgetting he was at the top bunk, he stretched his arms and the ceiling fan gave him a deep cut. With that pain, his eyes cleared up but only for an hour before sleep got the best of him again.

I wasn't his roommate in the 3rd and 4th year but we were in the same class; Economics. He had two good buddies who were from the same town and even lived there. I do ask one of them how he is coping and they would tell me he is trying his best. I was happy after we finished our final year exams as we would all depart until the guy I always ask about this guy told me he doesn't think this 'sleepy' guy would graduate because he had too many carryovers. My heart sank and I felt bad for him and even his parents.

I thought he would have told his parents because it shouldn't have been news to him to know he had several carryovers until we were receiving our gowns with proof of payments and a list with the person giving us the gowns to be sure only graduating students get it. I don't know how this guy managed to sneak through and pick a gown because he knew there was no way his name would be on that list to give him the gown.

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The day of the graduation came and I was surprised to see him dressed up and his parents were with him, looking all proud of their son. They even brought a lot of coolers for food and drinks to celebrate this guy. I had to look for his two close friends and ask them why they didn't rattle this guy out to his parents to avoid this embarrassment the parents would face? They said they told him to inform his parents but he didn't budge and there is little they can do.

When the pamphlet was given out with our names and classes of degrees, I learnt the parents were curious as to why his name wasn't there and right there, he told them there must have been an omission because it should be there. The father was furious with the school and after the ceremony, he stayed back to see the Vice-Chancellor as to why his son's name was omitted - only him.

The VC asked the records department as to what went wrong until they showed the father on the computer the mammoth list of subjects failed by their son and the father had to do the walk of shame. He went to summer classes and had to do another full session just to clear his carryovers the next year.

There is no shortcut in life and those who think there is, always have something else waiting in the wings for them. We need to take our lives more seriously. We need to be in control of our lives because that's just how we would turn out. The amount of time and investment we put into our lives would determine a lot for us going forward.

I would continue this again tomorrow, still on the same topic and hopefully, I would end it tomorrow as I hope to compress the details and still pass the clear message across.

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