Revision

Good Evening

It is that time again, the time when my mind becomes anxious, when my body aches due to sleep deprivation and when my thoughts become so academic that is scares those non-academic neurons in my head. I am not describing the often pleasant scenario of me about to plummet off a mountain, or to watch Liverpool play a fantastic make of the beautiful game, but alas my examinations coming upon me with the impending doom of sense that hits most politicians that possess a conscience.

I am anxious, due to personal complacency, but also because of my stubborn, and often ridiculous aptitude to push myself to daft extremes of both physical and mental exhaustion. I am running the Flora London Marathon 2007 this Sunday - the day before the serious batch of examinations - and the intensity of thought that is rampaging throughout my cranial vault is terrifying!

Most "normal" people pace themselves to focus upon one serious conquest at a time. Not me! I, through a somewhat bizarre "gamble" on my existence, prefer to concentrate on many divergently serious pursuits simultaneously. Why you may ask? The answer is simply because that one day I am not going to have the opportunity to test myself across so many spectra (i.e. magazine editor; marathon runner; students' union president; mountaineer; freelance photographer; serial columnist for numerous publications; preacher) to gradually, and painstakingly, force myself into developing a strong structure which is resilient to the stresses and strains that so many high end pursuits can bring upon someone. In other words I am simply forcing myself to significantly raise the threshold where one can crack under pressure.

To do so many things, and still walk around smiling, demonstrates either a heightened state of fortitude, or a mind seriously gone wrong. My guess is the former, but I do understand the boundaries and where the mind can crack when placed under what is essentially a scientific experimention, but highly unnecessary amount of strain, which in this hard life one perhaps may not need.

However, my life is ever colourful because of it. My next post perhaps shall be after my examinations. Who knows! I am just going to do my best considering that my body is going to be battered after that marathon on Sunday.

Regards

HMS

Work

Good Afternoon

The preoccupation of my day has been updating the website for my medical school magazine. I am the editor and it was about time that the site was updated.

Go and have a look. It is basic at the moment but it shall improve gradually. The end point is eighteen months away for it to improve by.

Regards

HMS

Three Hundred

Good Evening

There are circumstances and situations which can shape our future. They often come from unexpected sources and from friends and strangers we would least consider to possess such sway on us.

This evening a certain film has moved me. It has a primitive script and basic acting but the ideal it represents is something that any straight thinking person should understand-core values.

It is a very good film and one that is going to occupy a spot amongst the numerous films that compile my cinematic collection-when the extended DVD version comes out!

Regards

HMS

Preparation

Good Evening

Today has been a good day. I have been able to relax properly, as opposed to the rushed relaxation that normally comes me way, too often. The sun has been shining, and has brought warmth, as it always does, to brighten up a dreary day, but in this case to heighten the prolonged state of relaxation.

It is getting on this evening, but tomorrow I am preaching a sermon at a Seventh Day Adventist Church in Surrey. The history of this appointment is that due to me preaching at the Wimbleon Seventh Day Adventist Church back in February, some youth leaders from the Horley Seventh Day Adventist Church granted me an invitation to come and preach to them, this Sabbath, on health. This is not particularly a tricky subject to preach on, if you belong to the medical profession, but the scope of health, once thrown against the backdrop of a Christian philosophy-perhaps ideology-can become difficult to convey.

The reason for such difficulty, is that health, once seen through a Judeo-Christian context, becomes a lot more than the simple matter of how many portions of fruit to eat, and how many glasses of water to drink per day. It becomes a matter that whatever you do to your body, ranging from food consumption, to the sort of music you listen to, can affect your body through the physical, mental and therefore spiritual dimensions that construct our being.

The simple truth is that health for the Christian encompasses the Biblical statement that your body is the Temple of The Holy Spirit, and if such is the case, which every person who claims to be a Christian should believe, and proclaim, than the way you look after your body, can reflect your personal relationship with the Creator.

That is the simple truth. It is time for me to go back to the thinking board and plan tomorrows sermon in greater detail.

Regards

HMS

Today 1

Good Evening

Today was an unusual day, simply because tiredness became my companion so it seems, throughout the course of the day.

So much so that this blog, composed late during the evening, is just a ramble about the most annoying aspect of my day; tiredness. Perhaps tomorrow, something of interest might be scrawled up for this blog.

Regards

HMS

Introduction

Good Evening

This, my first proper online blog entry, has no particular inspiration, nor any particular goal, but perhaps is best described as a means to simply communicate my thoughts to whoever wishes to read them. That is, of course, the nature of online blogging-to permit untold others around the globe to take a glimpse into our world, without the need to sit next to us to participate in a discussion, nor to hear us on the phone.

So this is it, my grand introduction. As to who would read this blog, who knows. As to who would comment on this blog, and suggest topics for one to comment upon, and to recommend a course of thought throughout the blogs then the author is open to such.

Until then though, and my next entry, enjoy your evening.

Regards

HMS