Writing on Medium: Finding Holiday Busy Substitute.

ADAM GABRIEL MOUNIR
3 min readAug 15, 2021

“Student has to read 1 book a week minimum. You have to master some specific knowledge. Use your holiday time to read, write, and so on.” Said one of an almost wise person

Students tend to write whatever it is. As a student, being fed up with journals and articles is common and normal, and right now, in the holiday scheme, I’m starting to feel a little bit anxious about my routine. Yes, you’re right. I don’t have any specific busyness unless my organization is business. Am I learning some new knowledge? Yes, I’m. Is it useful? Hmmm, I don’t think so.

Since I don’t have any particular agenda, but I’m trying to get one, although it does not work well. These circumstances show laziness inside me; what I do now it’s very ineffective, but I’m not that stupid that I let myself be like a lazybones. In three weeks I already read two kinds of books, and I think it’s quite good, but once again it’s not related to what I’m learning at college. So I decided to write something here, in fact, there are many issues that I want to show up and another fact I already made the draft, but the laziness shows up again. If I count, there are three articles that I left behind right now.

I’m looking around and aware. People close to me already have the next step, whatever it is. I realize that a formal and rigid step doesn't fit me yet. I can’t join an internship because I don’t get one, I can’t register for any certificate skills class because I don’t have enough money. BUT YOU THINK I’M GIVING UP ON THE FIRST STEP? HELL NOOOO. Get the knowledge from any sources. That is what I’m standing up for.

What knowledge and what sources? I already read the political ontologist book and management investing book. So what do I study next? After a long list of considerations, I choose advertising. The particular context is “Copywriting.” Why? Because it’s marvelous. Imagine you can control a reader man just with a pen and piece of paper. Yes, I’m neither a communication major nor an economic student, but this field is going to push me forward to write, think, and execute a mental process. But I’m not gonna talk about this context because it’s very complex and conceptual. My point is I’m still moving WHATEVER THE PACE.

I don’t care if one of my friends has already become a manager or something. This is the way I’m living. I don’t normalize my bad habit. I consider myself a well-person.

Like I told you earlier, I felt that what I’m read is not related to me until I read Joseph Sugarman's book entitled “The Adweek Copywriting Book.” He said:

“The best copywriters in the world are those who are curious about life, read a great deal, have many hobbies, like to travel, have a variety of interests, often master many skills, get bored and then look for other skills to master. They hunger for experience and knowledge and find other people interesting. They are very good listeners”

From that cite, I realized that whatever I study, whatever it is, it’s still a piece of knowledge. It's improved my thought, either my emotions. Still, remember when I read Fabien Oakis’s book about Buddhist perspective. I don't think it is a direct bond to my study, but there is particular information that I get and may be useful in the future.

So, I know it’s not a structuralized writing. I am just trying to fill my mind with something. After this, I’ll post more conceptual writing (not-political) and train my writing skill not to patronize even to show off. Happy to write this. CIAOOO.

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