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Mr. Possible of Oxbridge💫

14 Nov, 11 tweets, 2 min read

There’s a particular story in the Bible that I can’t get off my head. I pondered on it first in 2018 and each time I think about it, the message appears more profound than it appeared previously.

Just follow my analogy:

Jesus’s most vulnerable moment in the Bible was at the garden of Gethsemane. It was the one time the Bible recorded his humanness and how overwhelmed Jesus felt knowing that he would soon be arrested, tried and crucified.

He needed to be with people he loved and could trust. Of all his disciples, he picked his three favourite (Peter, James and John) to pray with him.

He had told them that his soul was grieved to the point of death. I can imagine how scared and lonely he must have felt.

But not long after he has started praying, he looked back and saw his three favourites asleep. Imagine telling your best friends about how overwhelmed and scared you are, and seeing them fall asleep as you all prayed. He woke them up and begged them to keep praying.

Interestingly, when he came back the second time, he saw that they had all fallen asleep again. He was disappointed. “So you men could not keep watch with Me for one hour?”, he asked.
Obviously, he knew what was to happen but he needed them to be with him as he agonized.

Disappointed, but he went back the third time to pray. This time, the Bible said, he fell down to his face AND PRAYED WITH ALL HIS MIGHT.

He was tired, scared, angry, disappointed but when he went the third time, he prayed with every fibre of his being. The message is deep.

We understand that all these happened so that the scripture could be fulfilled but at the time it happened, the disciples didn’t know they were fulfilling scriptures. They were just people and despite their love for Jesus, they slept on him at his most vulnerable moment.

This story always gets me thinking about how many times I must have slept on people who needed me. I may or may not have known how much they needed me to just be there, but even if I did, could have been able to show up?

More importantly, the story makes me rethink my opinion about people when they are unable to be there for me in times that I needed them to. Some of life’s issues are very personal. The people who love us the most are either unhelpful or they simply can’t understand our pain.

Jesus knew that his disciples loved him. This battle just wasn’t what they could understand; they could afford to sleep. He couldn’t make them understand, so he prayed alone, and with all his might. He didn’t dwell on the disappointment. Even for Jesus, life became personal.

We need discernment because life is not always black or white. The greatest evil can result from the best intentions. The closest people will not be able to help our problems sometimes and in those times, I hope, like Jesus, that we can give all our might alone every time.

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Mr. Possible of Oxbridge💫

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12 Nov

I don’t understand why some professionals say there’s no such thing as “passion”. They say stuff like “passion is anything that can be increase your bank account”.

It’s so obtuse. Being a successful professional doesn’t mean you have an understanding of how the world works.

First of all, defining passion along the lines of only money-making is clear evidence that you don’t understand what passion is all about. There are a lot billionaires who made money doing the things they were passionate about. The money doesn’t rule out passion itself.

It’s okay if you say that people can thrive where they’re not necessarily passionate about. That is true. Besides, passion is cultivated.

But to use your platform to preach that passion doesn’t exist is not only misleading, it’s painfully myopic.

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The problem with finding the right person is that for every new person you meet, you have to restrain from going all out, just in case you’re making a mistake and by holding back, you don’t even get to put in the desired effort to make it work in the first place.

Some are lucky with relationships, it seems. Some are not. With the more “wrong” people you meet, the less interested you are in finding out who’s right and who isn’t. You realise there’s a huge part of everything you can’t control.

Unlucky, gradually equals unlikely!

There’s also so much to people that you may never know. You can spend years with a person and still eventually realise that you’ll be making a huge mistake if you settle with them.

Sometimes, what makes them “not right” shows up long after a lot of emotional investment. Scary.

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The more love, affection and effort you put into a person, the more you fall in love with that person, not the other way round.

You don’t get people to love you deeply but continuously showing them that you love them.

I don’t know how to explain this but I’ll try.

At the initial stage of liking someone, the outpouring of love and affection could get them to fall in love with you. But your continuous display of love doesn’t necessarily deepen the intensity of love a person has for you. It only constantly reaffirms that you love them.

The feeling a lady gets when you buy her a car in 2019 does not necessarily deepen when you buy two more cars in 2020. It affirms to her that you probably love her a lot, but this continuous show of love doesn’t guarantee the depth of her own feelings for you.

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Legal practice has been revealing. Your skills are very helpful to how you’d be viewed/rated. I’m still learning, but I’ll talk about two EVERYDAY skills which, I’m my opinion are really key:

- Critical Thinking
- Legal Writing

Normal stuff but not so normal. I’ll explain.

Critical thinking is so important because everyone often wants you to think and help solve problems.

My rule is: always believe there’s more to anything. If you get critical, you’ll ask the right questions. They can be occasionally foolish, but you’ll ask the right ones often.

If John tells you he’s 2 years older than a certain James and John is 40, it doesn’t mean James must be 38 at the time of that conversation. James can be 37 or 39 before John turns 40. It depends on whose birthday comes first in every calendar year.

James might have died at 37.

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11 Jul

If the love you claim to have for someone can always be suppressed and temporarily suspended so you can satisfy other guilty pleasures, then love is overrated.

We may avoid the truth, but we know that as a generation, we’ve corrupted too many institutions.

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We know the problem but we either run away from it or come up with convenient theories to rationalize it.

Our “wokeness” as a generation did not come from pure wisdom, it is borne out of self-absorption and overall laziness. Marriage and love was not designed easy.

We know this; but instead of deal with it head-on, we invent extensions which we never keep up with, and desperately try to justify them.

A partner cannot use your phone without asking for passwords. It is called privacy, but we know the truth.

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4 Jul

Congratulations to the new wigs as you’ve passed the bar exams! Super excited to hear it!

This thread is for those that are downcast by their results; those that need consoling as they equally celebrate.

I know your fears and I’ll be very honest with you in all I say.

What makes it hurt the most is the media and you’ve realised that social media doesn’t care about “failures”.

You did not make your desired grade and you can now clearly see that you may not get the attention.

But this celebration is a trap and not many can keep up.

Success is like a magic trick. You make a card disappear, it fascinates them, they want you to do it over and over and over and over again, till it becomes banal. Then they expect a more spectacular trick. Or they leave for more spectacular ones.

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