26A - Celebrating Failure

   This past semester I fooled myself into thinking I could keep up with my UF classes while I took a vacation. My family and I were originally scheduled to go to Europe in June but with COVID happening, we of course had to cancel that. After many weeks of being cooped up at home my wife wanted to get out. We didn’t have many options that weren’t risky. We decided to vacation at a condo on the beach in the Gulf. We didn’t interact with many people and just relaxed. I intended to do my schoolwork and tests while on vacation. I thought it would be peaceful. Unfortunately, the WIFI was not as good as it appeared, and that week we had to interview a bunch of people for assignments in this class. I failed miserably keeping up with the assignments and scored poorly on a test in another class. I don’t know what I was thinking. I was not motivated to do anything, and I felt like school was infringing on my earned vacation. I should have known this was a mistake. I can’t let the emotions of getting something I want now to hurt something I want in the long run.