"They say that if you never spent the midnight oil, you never worked hard. So what about those of us who spend it on a daily basis?"
Most of us have been there, under the midnight moon, tearing our hair apart as we finally realise the size of the mountain in front of us. The ever-consuming feeling of the weight of all our work, huge question banks, test preparations or any work... and submitting it the next day. The stress is so much that it makes the job of a bomb disposal officer look less frightening.Stress at that time, affects us all including me, and with tiredness also creeping by at that time makes the job even harder.
It is all the culmination of properly lazy-butting the whole day, watching TV, playing video-games, reading magazines, typing a new blog entry. And that especially happens when in the morning, confidently discern that this work take 'no time at all', a piece of cake. But really it becomes a piece of cake too sweet to eat and too sugary to swallow. I have faced such situations too frequently now, it happens cause I am just lazy, and it is a complete day spoiler that makes me hate myself. However, it is one of the most exhilarating experiences I have ever had (nothing like a good adrenaline rush). And it is a proper do-or-die situation like if you fail to complete the work during those final hours, even of the teacher pardons it and gives a day more to complete, in a part of the mind, there is always that feeling of failure and incompetence, on the contrary if you do complete it, there is an all-consuming sense of accomplishment that puts you on the top of the world, that feeling of telling to a class-topper that "you might be punctual, but try completing all of it in one night !".
And I think that really relates to our craving of pushing ourselves to the extreme, challenging ourselves and succeeding, for example climbing a mountain or bungee-jumping. In a way that makes many of us a bunch of thrill seekers .During those moments you think about nothing other than your work and often, fall into a trance, tapping into a higher level of concentration. I think that is what this so-called 'midnight oil' is, burn it and find yourself workin' harder and faster than ever-before (so it's like a nitrous oxide for your mind'), and conquer the enemy of time. And when you submit the work, you do not care what anybody says about it cause that time in the head there is only one-thing, "man !, I just defeated time itself."
It is all the culmination of properly lazy-butting the whole day, watching TV, playing video-games, reading magazines, typing a new blog entry. And that especially happens when in the morning, confidently discern that this work take 'no time at all', a piece of cake. But really it becomes a piece of cake too sweet to eat and too sugary to swallow. I have faced such situations too frequently now, it happens cause I am just lazy, and it is a complete day spoiler that makes me hate myself. However, it is one of the most exhilarating experiences I have ever had (nothing like a good adrenaline rush). And it is a proper do-or-die situation like if you fail to complete the work during those final hours, even of the teacher pardons it and gives a day more to complete, in a part of the mind, there is always that feeling of failure and incompetence, on the contrary if you do complete it, there is an all-consuming sense of accomplishment that puts you on the top of the world, that feeling of telling to a class-topper that "you might be punctual, but try completing all of it in one night !".
And I think that really relates to our craving of pushing ourselves to the extreme, challenging ourselves and succeeding, for example climbing a mountain or bungee-jumping. In a way that makes many of us a bunch of thrill seekers .During those moments you think about nothing other than your work and often, fall into a trance, tapping into a higher level of concentration. I think that is what this so-called 'midnight oil' is, burn it and find yourself workin' harder and faster than ever-before (so it's like a nitrous oxide for your mind'), and conquer the enemy of time. And when you submit the work, you do not care what anybody says about it cause that time in the head there is only one-thing, "man !, I just defeated time itself."
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