Studying is serving ahead of time

Studying is not only useful for passing exams or getting a job. It also prepares your intelligence to serve better: to solve problems, sustain a family, work with competence, and contribute to others. When you study with that perspective, tiredness does not disappear, but it changes its meaning. It is no longer just a heavy obligation; it is an anticipated form of charity and responsibility. It helps not to go to extremes. Neither living constrained and without joy, nor calling it freedom to always do whatever you feel like doing. Virtue goes by another path: ordering desires so that they help you live better, not so that they rule over everything.