Having a tough time in life?

Well, yah. For me, constantly having to study my butt off in med school sucks. Especially when my expectations aren't met with good results ... But when i step back for a sec to examine my situation, there isn't much i should be complaining about. Besides, grades are such a miniscule part of life, in the long run, who the hell cares whether i've gotten an honors in immunology or not?

What i've come to realize is that my feeling of malaise isn't so much related to school. Sure, things could be better, but regardless of whatever circumstance i'm in, i'm sure i can always think of something that could be better. So if it's not bad grades and endless studying that's making me bitter, then where is my discontent coming from?

All you people out there reading this little posting of mine, and going through whatever large or small struggles yourselves, perhaps you and i share the same problem deep down inside. Cuz peeps from a few thousand years ago were feeling the same way according to this excerpt from the bible ...

Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it. You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD Almighty. Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with his own house. <Haggai 1:5-6,9>

Why can't i be content? Cuz maybe i've been struggling to build a mansion for myself when i should've been building the temple of the Lord ...

Just a thought.