Be Careful What You Wish For

Recently I've noticed that I get distracted from doing homework too much. I'll start chatting with one of my friends on Facebook, or I'll get distracted pinning things on pinterest, or I'll start watching an episode of a tv show on Hulu, so basically my computer distracted me a lot. I knew that I needed to focus more on my homework and studying because I didn't get the best grades last semester. They weren't awful, but I knew that I could do better. So I decided to pray that I would be able to be more focused on my work and be able to do everything that I needed to do. Well, now I know why the phrase "be careful what you wish for" or in this case, pray for, is so true. On Friday my computer broke. I have no idea why, but it would not turn on at all. I was pretty upset by this, because computers are very necessary for everything that needs to be done in college. I check what my homework is online, I submit assignments online, I check on my grades online. Now my computer was broken, so that meant I'd have to walk all the way to the library to do the things I needed to do. I tried a few things to see if my computer would start working, but no luck.

On Saturday my computer was still broken, and most of my friends were off doing fun stuff while I was in my room. This is normally when I would find some tv show or spend a while on pinterest looking up recipes for yummy food, but my computer was broken, so I couldn't do that. I ended up cleaning my room, which I would need to do anyways because I had a cleaning check that night, and I did a lot of homework. I read half of the Iliad for my Civilizations class, I organized my notes for my classes and went over what I had learned, I read quite a bit from the Book of Mormon and caught up on that reading that I was supposed to be doing, and I got a lot of work done! Then, on Saturday night as I was lying in bed, I was still kind of upset that my computer was broken. Then I had the thought, "You did pray to have less distractions. Mostly all of your distractions were on the computer. Look at how much you got done today without your computer there to distract you."

So I guess it was kind of a good thing that my computer broke....maybe... I did indeed get a lot done, and I don't have as many distractions. It is a little obnoxious to walk to the library to use a computer, but I guess this was an answer to my prayer to be able to focus and have less distractions.