Hard work pays off...

Like, I don't know how many times people have told me this.... I don't think anyone has never heard this before, but I don't think anyone really can appreciate until they experience working hard for something and getting a good result. (Woah check me with my fancy underlines :o) Hmmm interesting it appears like I have broken my text....

Back to what I was saying, I think that up until this year I've never really been faced with any hard challenges so I've tended to be a fairly lazy person. Things have changed now, I have my GCSEs in May and they're actually pretty important :/ so I've started to put some effort in for a change and I'm not gonna lie, it sucks... 

One thing that I was taught by my brother that psychologically one of the most unencouraging thing is putting in effort and not seeing results, like all those people who make their New Years resolution to get hench or even just fit, they will put effort in but by February give up as they haven't seen any results...

Today I results from my first ever Latin literature test, and normally I'm quite poor in Latin... Test basically involved me having learnt 70 lines of Virgil from memory and then answering questions on it... Yaaaaaay -_- BUT I did manage to pick up an A* which has given me so much more encouragement!

For a moral to take from this I guess I'm trying to say, just because you don't see results straight away from working doesn't mean give up. Even if things seem impossible the key is persistence. A quotation to hopefully keep you motivated is "Never give up; for even rivers some day wash away dams" - Arthur Golden (although I don't have a clue who he is)

Thanks for Reading

Omar Al-Kamil

(I need to figure out what happened to my font)

Was it worth?

After I do something I often ask myself was it worth, but today I'm really considering it... 

So I had a hockey match today, and normally hockey is something I really like to play, but the league which I play in regularly is outrageous... People are brutal and rude... The language used by most players in the game is just unbearable, the worst is one of the players on my team who feels the need to constantly abuse me after every mistrap or mistake I make, even when there's physically nothing I can do he just constantly swears at me.

Makes me wonder if it's worth me actually carrying on playing, and I'm not talking about quitting hockey all together... But why should I go play, when I'm not enjoying myself due to people ruining the game for me? I reckon that had I not scored and won us a point I probably would have quit there and then.

I guess I'm done...

Thanks for Reading

Omar Al-Kamil

Insomnia, Virgil and Repetition (repetition)

What an awful combination, 

Short and sweet today, although it feels pretty sour... Since I've got home I've just spent all day in my room essentially chanting Virgil (Latin epic poetry) to learn it, while trying to sleep (unsuccessfully) several times...

An old Arabic proverb (not really that old or a proverb; just something my grandad used to say to my mum) "repetition can teach even the donkey." Sounds better in Arabic trust me...

I like to try and actually write something constructive with my posts but today it's just me ranting about how basically my life is just sitting in my room and revising, if not Latin then it's Greek or some other subject, sometimes I go play hockey but it's mainly just chanting...

Thanks for reading 

Omar Al-Kamil

I'M ALLOWED A FRIEND, AREN'T I?

Which is what I found myself shouting after hockey yesterday, for contextual purposes we had just finished training and as I was checking my phone (cause I'm like sooooo popular) I had a message which I found hilarious so I started to laugh.

And my friend I was walking back with started to question me about who my friend was and insisted that my friend should have been a female and that I shouldn't be talking to another male over Facebook... 

And although I'm almost 100% sure she was joking, (I hope she was joking...) I do know that is problem is quite prevalent atleast for me. Because I have had many people who always call judgements just because I'm talking to a specific person or a person of a particular gender.

People should be allowed to friend whoever they want, I'd go as far to say if 'friends' judge your other friends, maybe you should think and consider who your actual friends are... Because your actual friends won't judge you, especially not for such trivial things like who your other friends are.

Thanks for reading 

Omar Al-Kamil

(p.s. This counts as my post for yesterday, I had wrote it up but fell asleep and my phone ran out of charge and I lost it, so I've rewritten it today)

Who am I?

Honestly I don't know... 

Like I could tell you all the basic things and make a nice sweet little list, so I will:

Name: Omar Al-Kamil

Age: 16

Occupation: Student

Does that really tell me or you or anyone else who am I? Cause apart from that I'm not really sure. In the last 2 months or so I've just been really lost as to who I am or what do I do with my life.

It followed from a few things, one would be exam stress from my mocks and even though I insist to myself I don't care about them I'm pretty sure they played some sort of factor... 

Another thing would be all the pointless arguments with my "friends". Although I used to consider myself as really patient recently I've discovered that I have become a little more edgy than I thought, and I let really small things annoy me way too much. People just say I'm too sensitive, but like... What am I gonna do about it. 

Anyway, it seems I've gone on a bit of a tangent here... This was aimed to be a second introductory post as my first one I wrote when I started was pretty poor and I didn't feel did me justice, reading this back this isn't exactly a CV or anything... 

Realistically just the amount of hours memorising Virgil and the thought of an English task to do still just took creativity out of me so I just thought I'd go for an introduction, I've started one of them inspiration notes pool thingys where you write all your inspiration down throughout the day and write a post about it later... Currently it's empty (evidently) so I'll see what I can come up with!

Thanks for Reading

Omar Al-Kamil

Surprise.... I'm back

Well...

Hey guys, remember me?

So after the persuasion of my friend, I've decided to (attempt to) revive my blog. The reason why I stopped writing my blog is that I felt like nobody was reading what I was writing. 

He reminded me that actually people were reading, so today I checked my stats and I remembered the elusive 1000 page views which I obtained... Also he reminded me of all the views I got from abroad,  from countries that I have no connection with like Russia or Germany or even Norway.

Another reason why I felt like no one was reading was that no one really was commenting, across all my posts I only had 3 comments (not including myself).

Essentially, I stopped blogging because I didn't think anyone was reading, BUT I WAS WRONG... And sorry to people who have been reading. I intend to be a lot more active now, hopefully I'll keep a post a day. If anyone has any content requests feel free to comment and I'll see what I can do

Thanks for reading

Omar Al-Kamil