Relax

Days off come so rare nowadays it seems and despite Australia's reputation for being a rather relaxed country - our public holidays always have to take up the weekday after if they fall on a weekend, and with 4 weeks leave every year, we definitely have it lucky here. At the same time though, the first world problem of not having enough time to chill seems so prevalent in university. It's scary to even consider how I will feel during full-time work considering the pain of even making 11am PBL class at the moment.

Strong

So over the past few months, the same thought has gone through my mind numerous times. Society demands of us to be resilient, be act strong, to feign a smile and go through our daily tasks with no signs of weakness but the truth is that the bane of humanity is vulnerability, mortality and internal struggle - it is what makes us weak primitive creatures but also what makes us so beautifully strong.

19

For as long as I've known, I've always been decent at numbers. From an early age it seemed that I had a certain gift for basic arithmetic never having to really try in order to do decently in mathematics examinations but over time I had realised that high school mathematics involved more than simply basic numbers, it had evolved to complex operations and patterns that could only be solved with practice. That is the crux of something as fundamentally logical as mathematics - to entice the left hemisphere of our brains to take into consideration the marvellous subtleties of something like a number.

Replaces

The past few months have honestly been a journey experiencing the many dimensions of life itself. As I sit here on the banks of the Brisbane river starting into the skyline of the city, thousands of thoughts occur.