No Motivation

[Brother Charlie]

I dont have any motivation for my grades anymore. I really dont care what I get on my GPA anymore. Last year I was all concerned about what I got, but now I dont care. I dont really care what college I go to, either. I dont care what job I get either, they all seem the same and so pointless. Is this healthy? Is it normal?

 

[Brother Charlie]

I dont really want to learn anything else either. Everything else I have to learn, it seems the only purpose of learning it is to do a specific job. Other than that, there is no purpose to learning anything else, right?

 

[Irenaeus]

Charlie,

This feeling passes. Be patient. At least it does for me. Keep pressing on. The day will come when this school work will be over. Just hold on. Keep a smile on your face.

 

[CrystalBrooke]

here's my diagnoses: you're a normal teenager! i do the same thing sometimes...usually when im mad...i totally bombed a chem test last week, but i was mad when i took it so i didnt care....luckily we get to retake the test now im studying like crazy! its just your hormones i guess...lol

 

[Carrye]

Is this healthy? Is it normal?

Healthy is a relative term, as St. Thomas Aquinas would tell you. Normal, another relative term. Philosophy aside, here's some theology to get you ...

You're not the only one to be apathetic like this, Charlie. I've struggled with something similar, yet different, lately as well. But do you want to know what I realized? As much as it would be easier to just stop doing homework, stop going to school, stop learning, that's not what you're called to do right now. Your vocation right now is to be a student.

God will make you holy not in spite of your schoolwork, but because of your dedication to school. He uses (and often places us in) our current situation to make us more like Him. And so do you know what that means?

It means that to reject this, to be unmotivated, is actually to reject God and the means by which He has chosen to make us holy. Not only that, but choosing not to give our best at school will likely mean limitations later on. Those are limitations for ourself, of course, but it also limits what God can do with us. And I don't know about you, but my current situation isn't frustrating enough to give up what I don't yet even know (what God might want to use me, His little creation, for).

 

[FullyMT]

I agree with clskinner. Your duty right now is to be a student. Maybe you may not like it, but that is where God wants you. You may not realize it, but in general, your whole life you are going to be jumping through hoops to get to where you want. I'm taking a bunch of AP classes that have nothing to do with my intended major in hope that I will get to focus sooner on the courses I want to take in college and get the G.E. credits out of the way. If I have to take a course I don't want, I just try to think of it as something that will help me get to where I want, even if I don't want to take that road to get there. This is the road God wants me, and you, to be on! I've also realized that we can learn awesome lessons in humility by being in situations that we don't want to be placed in (ie, not wanting to take Trig, but do it anyways), and there may be a person you meet in that class who you will get to make an impression on and *hopefully* spark up their will to move towards the Son.

 

[Dream]

Everybody goes through those phases as a teenager. I wouldn't call it healthy, but it's something we've all been through.

My only advice is think positively. You'll start to find interest in some topics you cover in school; it may be history, science, math, or even English.

It wasn't till my senior year of high school went I actually started to enjoy learning. Now, there are few things that I enjoy better than a quantum physics lecture. (I'm not joking)

 

[Carrye]

I agree with clskinner.

You are wise beyond your years. LOL!

I will get to focus sooner on the courses I want to take in college and get the G.E. credits out of the way.

And you'll get to register earlier, which will mean taking classes that are actually worthwhile - those classes that are "must have's" by "must have" professors.

we can learn awesome lessons in humility by being in situations that we don't want to be placed in (ie, not wanting to take Trig, but do it anyways), and there may be a person you meet in that class who you will get to make an impression on and *hopefully* spark up their will to move towards the Son.

Now this is REAL wisdom. No joke this time.

 

[FullyMT]

Now, there are few things that I enjoy better than a quantum physics lecture. (I'm not joking)

Hearing that almost made me spit out the Milky Way I was eating from laughing...I think I have a general overview of that in my AP Phys. class this year. I'm glad someone enjoys learning about moving electrons though!!

 

[Carrye]

I'm glad someone enjoys learning about moving electrons though!!

*Carrie has a flashback of her two semesters of college inorganic chemistry. NOOOOOO!

 

[Irenaeus]

Algebra II is my bane.