This week has been all about tests for me. Whether it be a test as in an exam I took this past Monday for my math class, or this test we call life, I'm learning that if I look at each issue that comes my way as a test or challenge, then I give myself the opportunity to grow. I can see it as a way to succeed or rise above the circumstances. As my buddy and singer for our band, Jd said in our song "Just A Test": " I see, I see a way around, I don't want to go that way. ", sometimes you just have to forge on through and keep trying.
My first test of the week was in fact, a test. An exam for my Quantative Reasoning class which I find interesting. I find it interesting because it takes real life situations and posits them in a mathematical or formulative approach that sometimes makes you feel like you're running the long way around to solve a problem, but it actually eliminates all doubt. Such as the logic section, where we learned about Deductive and Inductive Reasoning. There were a few questions on that topic on our test, as well as some about Venn Diagrams and learning how to write things in roster notation, sets and subsets. One part I liked the best but sometimes stumped me was the section on tautologies, self-contradictions or neither. That's where they took a compound statement and wrote it out as an equation, then we had to develop a truth table to find out if they were actually true or not. It was a lot of back and forth and learning how to understand a negation and flipping operations, so it got a little confusing, but I liked it because it was like understanding reasoning or proving something wrong scientifically.
The second thing that comes to mind this week in regard to a test is that of my wife and I's 10-year dating anniversary. On February 24th, 2012, I took my wife to our very first date which was actually my buddy's rock show. The reason it has been a test is because our love has stood the test of time, for at least ten years now, anyway! Honestly, we have had ups and downs as anyone does in a relationship, but my wife has really gone to bat for me and been there through my lowest points and was there when I came back on the other side. If it wasn't for her, I don't think I would have learned as much as I have in this life so far. She reminds me, and she guides me as well as inspires me to keep going or pick it up and try again.
The next thing that has challenged me and I have to stop and look at as a test is my uncle will probably not be able to stay on my little brother's property as much as this would actually help all of us out. He has a loan through the VA, and it's regulated a bit more than we thought so we can't put his trailer up on the property. I wanted to just be frustrated about it, and my little brother did too but it wasn't going to solve anything. So, we decided to meet up and have dinner at my place and talk about it. We ended up having a good time eating homemade pasta that my wife made on her new pasta maker she got for Christmas. We also played a card game called Joking Hazard which you set up a few comic strip panels, and other players place the last panel, and you choose the best one. We had a better time not taking it so seriously at the moment and talked sensibly about how I could help by having him move here, if need be, or a variety of other options. He just wants to be moved out from where he currently is. I feel like this is a hurdle rather than a roadblock now and that after communicating we can find an answer together or work towards one together.
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