My first CLEP
so ya'll as i sit here on my personal computer(pc) ( really i sgare with my familia)i am thinking abt what to write. i just took my introductory psychology clep( baruch Hashem i passed.) i have been studying for this thing forever like a NOT NORMAL amount. i read the clep book 2.5 times took the tests and read the explanations like 5 times and i read the glossary and skimmed a textbook and i sat there and was reading the book as it was coming out of my ears, they lost my registration form so i had to register again and finally i sat down to take the test they proceeded to give me instructions on the usage of a mouse. so i was taking the test and to my complete horror i all the questions were completely new to me. i proceded to take the test to the best of my ability. i was praying in between questions begging Hashem to give me some flashes of inspiration. i knew a couple of questions and the rest i just hoped and prayed.
so why did i decide to share my saga with you? well this is how it always works, i kinda just type till something comes to me so this is what came to me this week: first of all it hit me that they didnt take it for granted that everyone .knew howe to use a mouse, scroll down and all these things that are so elementary to those living in the 21st century.maybe the person before me just moved here from a third world country and is trying to make a future for themselves and save him and his family from poverty but would not be able to further education bcz he was handicapped in computers or maybe a 90 yr old women who wants to get her high school diploma so she'll feel accomplished, yet the only thing holding her back is her lack of computer skills, how sad that would be. so maybe we can learn something from this. how often do we come to relationships/people/situations with expectations, taking it for granted that this person knows exactly what you wanted and how dare you not do that. too often this expectations are misplaced, unless you explicitly communicate that which you want how can that person do it for you, we cannot expect people to read our minds or to remember that you told them last week that they were supposed to do something for you. ( this often happens with family members)
this could all also fall into the category of dan lekaf zechut but i'll stop here and know my second point which i actually thought of first but didnt follow the sequence of the storywe always say that everything is in the hands of Hashem but how much is this really part of our lives and how much is lip service?this is also from Rabbi G's vaad- when something bad, we are sad and as we try to comfort ourselves with the thought that it comes from Hashem and that it must be for the good, but if we really believed it would we need to keep telling ourselves that, and how often do we attribute our successes to HIm? Hashem usually gets the bad stuff and we usually applaud ourselves for a job well done, after all we worked hard and according to "teva" when you study you shoul ddo well, we forget that teva is HAshem's creation and everything in teva is a nes a constant hidden miracle so the fact that you studied really does nothing to improve your score its just a facade so Hashem's glory is hidden ( Hashem is the ultimate in tzniut) so in the beginning when i was describing to you how much i studied i was trying to set this up, i was fairly confident that i would do well, despite that knot in my stomache tthat is present before every test. so when i started the test and saw that i basically wasted my time ( there was no time log at the end to give me credit for my hours) studying.
so i just davened that Hashem would get me thrtough the test i recognized some things and Baruch Hashem i passed, never in my life did i feel that a test and its outcome had so much to do with what Hashem wanted to happen, if i had failed it wouldve happened bcz HAshem wanted me too, not bcz i hadnt studied enough, everthing, of course we must do our hishtadlut but we have to remember were everything comes from( both successful and not)
so why did i decide to share my saga with you? well this is how it always works, i kinda just type till something comes to me so this is what came to me this week: first of all it hit me that they didnt take it for granted that everyone .knew howe to use a mouse, scroll down and all these things that are so elementary to those living in the 21st century.maybe the person before me just moved here from a third world country and is trying to make a future for themselves and save him and his family from poverty but would not be able to further education bcz he was handicapped in computers or maybe a 90 yr old women who wants to get her high school diploma so she'll feel accomplished, yet the only thing holding her back is her lack of computer skills, how sad that would be. so maybe we can learn something from this. how often do we come to relationships/people/situations with expectations, taking it for granted that this person knows exactly what you wanted and how dare you not do that. too often this expectations are misplaced, unless you explicitly communicate that which you want how can that person do it for you, we cannot expect people to read our minds or to remember that you told them last week that they were supposed to do something for you. ( this often happens with family members)
this could all also fall into the category of dan lekaf zechut but i'll stop here and know my second point which i actually thought of first but didnt follow the sequence of the storywe always say that everything is in the hands of Hashem but how much is this really part of our lives and how much is lip service?this is also from Rabbi G's vaad- when something bad, we are sad and as we try to comfort ourselves with the thought that it comes from Hashem and that it must be for the good, but if we really believed it would we need to keep telling ourselves that, and how often do we attribute our successes to HIm? Hashem usually gets the bad stuff and we usually applaud ourselves for a job well done, after all we worked hard and according to "teva" when you study you shoul ddo well, we forget that teva is HAshem's creation and everything in teva is a nes a constant hidden miracle so the fact that you studied really does nothing to improve your score its just a facade so Hashem's glory is hidden ( Hashem is the ultimate in tzniut) so in the beginning when i was describing to you how much i studied i was trying to set this up, i was fairly confident that i would do well, despite that knot in my stomache tthat is present before every test. so when i started the test and saw that i basically wasted my time ( there was no time log at the end to give me credit for my hours) studying.
so i just davened that Hashem would get me thrtough the test i recognized some things and Baruch Hashem i passed, never in my life did i feel that a test and its outcome had so much to do with what Hashem wanted to happen, if i had failed it wouldve happened bcz HAshem wanted me too, not bcz i hadnt studied enough, everthing, of course we must do our hishtadlut but we have to remember were everything comes from( both successful and not)
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