On small failures and planning greater growth.

So the whole exam thing did not go so great.  A minor moment of panic meant I briefly forgot: 

   a) everything I learnt 

   b) the English language 

   c) how to use a pen and paper to make letters.  

But heck, when the post-exam afternoon is spent with wonderful friends, drinking wine and playing Mario Party on the Wii and finished with a midnight walk in fluttery snow, it somehow seems much less important.

And, my favourite moment of perspective, I heard a man talking on the radio about planting trees.  He said that by planting a tree, you take a completely different understanding of time as you are shaping what the very earth will look like in the future.  Not just in your lifetime but perhaps for hundreds of years.  I like that thought, one simple action can span years you'll never see. 

I crave leaving the city, ignoring paperwork and having a garden.