Today in class we mentioned the story wherein Muhammad pleaded to Allah that he require only 5 prayers per day, rather than fifty. Professor Silliman mentioned in class that this story is intended to show that 5 prayers per day is not very much compared fifty prayers per day. It demonstrates the power of putting things into a different perspective.
I, personally, know full well how this sort of thing can work. We are drawing close to the end of our semester and the number of blog posts that I have done shows it. Last semester I had only one class that I had to blog for and I only had to blog around two times a week, though I blogged closer to three times each week. At that time I thought that completing three substantial blog posts per week was highly impressive, as it required what seemed like a great amount time and work. At the end of last semester, I had complete 33 blog posts. This semester, however, I blog for four classes, three of which require 4 blog posts for an A (16 posts per week). By the end of this week I will have completed at least 216 blog posts (6 times the work of last semester not including my other two classes, or the additional reading for each class). Never again will I think that four or even eight blog posts per week is a lot of work.
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