Probability and Stress

A famous person (or not) once said, "Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.") This person, (famous or not) knew a secret about life. This week I discovered that I would not be able to choose where I am going to live next year for school. Apparently all of the rooms have been filled up and my roommate and I have been moved to what is referred to as a "waiting list". Needless to say, this is quite stressful and very annoying to the average person (me), who does not have much patience and tolerance for this sort of seemingly unfair treatment of first-year college students.

This has required me to do a lot of praying, and also learn that God does not answer us exactly when we want with exactly what we want. He always has a plan, wether or not we can see that at the time of the trouble we are going through. As of now, I do not currently have a place assigned for me to live next school year. But I know that God will figure it out all for me, I have done all that I can and it is in God's hands, not mine.

It also has been a week of learning humbleness and trusting other people, and of discovering what it means to truly start to "like" someone and care about a particular person. I have learned what it is like to be jealous, to realize why I am jealous, and to keep my attitude in check. I have learned that I care too much about probability and exact results than I do about what is right, which is an aspect of my thinking that I need to change. I have also learned a lot about communication with guys, but that is a story for another post.