"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right what is easy. But remember this, you have friends here. You're not alone." -Dumbledore, "The Goblet of Fire".
I love this quote because I can relate to it on so many levels. Daunting tasks such as school, sports, in my case tennis, and extracurricular activities are easy to neglect. After taking a test, the easiest thing to do is to take a night off, or to watch T.V. for a couple of hours before starting the next in what seems to be a perpetual workload of homework. The notion of doing what's right hardly has to be related to being a hero such as Harry, ridding the world of evil. In my case, doing the right thing would be taking care of my obligations with responsibility, and being able to resist neglecting my homework during that hour break, or forcing myself to not goon AIM that one night before that big math test. It's hard to do, but I remind myself that at the end of the day, ultimately, I'll be that much better off opposed to if I neglected studying. The same holds true for coming home, most days around 6:45 or 7:00, after tennis practice or a match, and having to dive right into a seemingly insurmountable pile of homework, and on top of that, expected to get the same grades as everybody else with less obligations are getting.
Even heroes such as Harry and Dumbledore face adversity. In fact, their actions in face of adversity are what define them as the heroes we know them as. Life is the same way: if there were no such thing as challenges, and no such thing as tests, we might've lived in a boring world of mediocrity. After hearing this quote, I'd like to think that I'll from now on welcome adversity with a smile.
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