I thought I would feel great when the
30-day challenge ends, but I didn’t. I thought I would feel so relaxed when I
wouldn’t need to focus on the boring plots anymore, but I didn’t. I thought I
would feel happy everyday when I wouldn’t need to rack my brain to find topics
to write three times a week, but I didn’t. Actually, I found something had lost
from my body when I went to check the book I read in the challenge, and it was
finished; I found something was empty when I turned on my laptop and prepared
to write a new blog, but there was nothing to write about; I felt bored by
having nothing to do these nights, but I just automatically left that time
period alone. Then I new that, the ending of this challenge wasn’t just an end,
lots of new things, new challenges, might start soon.
In the 30 day challenge, I read two chapters
of Emma, which was a classic written by Jane Austen. I have complained for
thousands of times about how slow the plots went through and how boring were
the characters in the book. There were only parties, balls and meetings in each
house for those characters to spend their spare time all over the book. I have
complained for thousands of times about how many things I had to do everyday.
Even in my second post, I already started to complain, “How can you imagine
that I have to read 2 chapters of Emma and there were a 500 words blog waiting
for me?” after “my whole day of full of classes, the golf practice for more
than an hour and the long and boring sit down dinner” (The Second Post). It was
so hard to read and write in these days, and it seemed still hard even the
30-day challenged had already rang the bell of ending. However, I was so proud
of myself that there wasn’t one second that I wanted to give up!
I would say that the blog posts drained my
energy and time. They might not be the best works of the whole year in the
writing class, but I’m sure that they were the ones I put all my efforts on. I
still remembered each time I sat next to my laptop and thought about the
topics that I could write painfully. It was funny that when I found something
interesting in the book during the challenge, the first thing came up to my mind was how lucky I! If there were lots of events happened in a chapter, I would try
to leave something for the next day. Actually, I seldom saw any chapters with
more than one big event. There was a day when the challenges were half
finished; the teacher asked me if I could fill the blogs with better ideas.
It’s hard to forget that how graceful I was when she told me some possible
topics of the blog. Thus, these blogs exerted my utmost effort; they were the
result of my hard work, and it would prove my perseverance.
Well, I knew people would ask why I was
always complaining about how exhausting and terrible the 30-day challenge was.
However, that was the way I remembered things. Without any suffering, I could not
have any improvement. I have said it was difficult, but I still finished the
difficult task, that I thought I could never reach it before. I knew how I
recognized and appreciate myself after the 30-day challenge. I have learned and
earned lots of skills and knowledge in this simple challenge. It was the first
time that I read a classic in English, which wasn’t my native language. By continuing
reading the book every day, I have learned many kinds to write descriptions,
details and foreshadowing. I couldn’t imagine how my writing skills improved in
the everyday writings and trainings. It was a hard task for me to write 500
words before, but it doesn't matter now. The challenge helped me to know how
important to keep doing one thing that the result of success seemed so sweet to
collect.
Finally, the 30-day challenge on reading a
book and writing blogs ended, maybe not perfectly, but at least joyfully and
successfully. However, as what I have just said, it was only the challenge on
reading a book, and it wasn’t the ending. People’s lives were always full of
challenges, and I should keep working. By noticing the ending of my “dear
reading tasks”, I truly should find some other fun, or maybe challengeable
things to satisfy my mind, which accidently started to feel excited. Next time,
I might try to cook different foods every day; I might go to weight room every
day to lose weight; or I might try to write a novel for a challenge. My future
is multiple, I can see the start of the new challenge already.
Citation:
“The Second Post." Cherrie's
Blog. N.p., 14 Apr. 15. Web. 12 May 2015.
