Entry 19, Nectar in a Sieve

  When I first read this quote, i did not understand the meaning behind this quote. I went through, thought about this a few times and asked myself how this is true. I completely agree with this quote, this quote actually applies to many things in life, in school work and many more. I see this as, the nectar is the things you are learning, or the things that you are trying to attain, but without actually having hope, without having the positive mind, without wanting to accomplish it even, will get you nowhere, and you will never receive what you wanted to in the first place. The sieve is the conflict, is the struggle within yourself that is not accepting the nectar. You are like a bowl, with a positive attitude, with your mind completely willing to accept it, you will absorb the nectar, which is the experience or the skill out of the thing you are doing. Without being like a bowl, which is sort of like having hope and being confident and willing to accept the truth, you turn into the sieve, which will cause you to not perform as well when you are doing a certain task, or cause you to not learn anyhting from the experience. This definitely applies to my life, when I did not accept some things before, such as classes like expository writing, I thought it was not an important class, I did not learn anything out of it. I believe that if I had the chance of going back, I would accept the fact that I was in that class, and mind as well make something out of it while being there.