Reading scriptures is hard when you are distracted. Well reading them isn't hard, it's that understanding that is difficult. When your mind is in a different place, you don't tend to pay attention to what you're looking at.
My mind was on school. School's always at the back of any student's mind. What is due tomorrow? What homework should I do now, what classes do I have tomorrow? Do I need to make my lunch tonight? Will I even have time to eat lunch tomorrow? What is I fail my test? Can I get a B on the quiz and still pass with an A? What is my GPA is below 4.0? All these questions and more. All the time. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We lose sleep, we stress, we explode, we sigh. We sigh a lot. We also say we're tired a lot. And we almost always count down the days until Friday, until the next break, until summer. All in all, students have a very dismal outlook on their near future.
But we aren't totally unjustified. To tell you the truth, school is hard. None of us who graduated from middle school having never seen the likes of a GPA below 4.0, now find that we actually have to study, how ludicrous is that? Middle school says they prepare you for high school, but all they really do is give you a pat on the back and a kick through the doors of intermediate education. We don't really know how to study, because we never had to before. Even freshman year we just needed to study for English, which ultimately just involved reading the whole book and not sparknotesing it. But this year. Boy of oh boy. Sophomore year. Freshmen beware, because your future is late nights taking AP Euro notes and the seemingly endless torment of Mr. Doherty's monotone voice.
These days will be over soon, and I am told that I'll miss school when I'm an adult. But for now, I am a bit overwhelmed. We all are, what with finals in a week.
But back to my point, reading scriptures is more difficult when you are distracted. My solution is to read from my actual, tangible scriptures rather than from my phone. Reading lets me get away from the world of only long enough to read three pages.
I know that reading the scriptures is important to my spiritual growth and I believe I can endure to the end of all my problems.
Pacific
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