summer
SOooo i am here and finally writing once again
I will start by writing about summer and how it has been a different summer than i have ever experienced before..
this last year i have been away at college, and it has been the single greatest time of my life. The whole aspect of living on your own and having your own responsibilities is what is drastically different from home life. It really seems like as a person i have grown tremendously in this past year of college life. Though i have grown, i also feel like i have closed a chapter of how i once felt, or behaved, or existed. I know that some things are done and will not be revisited. I feel like i have grown or moved on from a life i once had in highschool. You realize that many aspects of that life were trivial or not really important. I also realized that most of what i learned academically in school was all mostly useless. After a year of taking random liberal arts courses (philosophy, psychology, creative writing, etc) you realize that things are taught much differently in college. Suddenly it seems that there are different viewpoints on things that were once taught as an objective truth. I especially noticed this in my history class. In highschool history you were taught one side of the truth. In college learning, you are taught to think for yourself, and to take in other's viewpoints, but to think for yourself about them. You really find where you stand in your mind on certain topics that you thought you would never be interested in. You find yourself reading books not because you have to, but because you want to. The entire aspect of reading has also in a way, changed for me. I have learned to read by examining metaphor and by looking deeper into parts of the text. The novels that were required for the class all were enjoyable to me. This being a major change between highschool and college. Reading and writing has a place in everything. It really annoys me when people say " i dont read" or " i dont like books". These statements are not thought out. You realize that at any moment of your life you are reading, and responding to those words. Reading is not a chore. Reading just happens when you scan your eyes across something. I am also quite positive that somewhere out there exists a book that you will read and enjoy enough to finish. After discovering this you will seek out more books like this and continue your expedition into reading.
Another course i took that changed my thought outlook on life was philosophy. This one course teaches you to think about things differently. You learn about arguments and subjective and objective truths. This course is sort of what brought me to my stance on religions. My entire life christianity has been pushed on me in a odd manner. My family stopped going to church when i was about 10. I never really thought about my religion other than that it was there. I never thought that other ways of spiritual thinking existed or were valid just because i was raised this certain, semi christian way. I have come to believe that whatever religion you practice is the right one for you only if you believe it yourself. I think that if it is just passed on from your family and you just go along with things, than you are believing for the wrong reasons. I think that in order to validate religion in your own mind, you have to seek it out, read into it and truly believe for yourself. Gandhi's views were like this. He saw religion as a personal path to your own understanding of God. I do not see myself as a "christian" persay, but i do believe in the aspect of a God. Though i constantly debate things like this in my head. I also dislike the stubborness of certain religious people. They were brought up on a certain religion and this was cemented into them. They do not look at objective facts or truths about anything else, and just look at other ways of thinking as false. I think that in order for something to be valid in your mind, you must be able to debate it and think about it. You should have reasons for what you believe in, other than just how you were raised to think.
as i am sitting home on this summer day, i am realizing that throughout my life i have been in drastically different settings and through different mindsets. At this time i can for once say i am content with my life and my friends and even my family ( to a certain extent)
Being back home is sometimes difficult because i see people that i used to talk to and even befriend. I see them in different parts of their lives that do not include me. This doesnt anger me, but it makes me realize how people change and lives change, and perceptions change.
As of now i am getting ready for another semester away at college. I could not be more eager to start. My life at college is very exciting and energetic. At home in summer i am lazy and frequently bored. So if anyone read this, i would like to say... i was bored and....
piss.. on a pony..
I will start by writing about summer and how it has been a different summer than i have ever experienced before..
this last year i have been away at college, and it has been the single greatest time of my life. The whole aspect of living on your own and having your own responsibilities is what is drastically different from home life. It really seems like as a person i have grown tremendously in this past year of college life. Though i have grown, i also feel like i have closed a chapter of how i once felt, or behaved, or existed. I know that some things are done and will not be revisited. I feel like i have grown or moved on from a life i once had in highschool. You realize that many aspects of that life were trivial or not really important. I also realized that most of what i learned academically in school was all mostly useless. After a year of taking random liberal arts courses (philosophy, psychology, creative writing, etc) you realize that things are taught much differently in college. Suddenly it seems that there are different viewpoints on things that were once taught as an objective truth. I especially noticed this in my history class. In highschool history you were taught one side of the truth. In college learning, you are taught to think for yourself, and to take in other's viewpoints, but to think for yourself about them. You really find where you stand in your mind on certain topics that you thought you would never be interested in. You find yourself reading books not because you have to, but because you want to. The entire aspect of reading has also in a way, changed for me. I have learned to read by examining metaphor and by looking deeper into parts of the text. The novels that were required for the class all were enjoyable to me. This being a major change between highschool and college. Reading and writing has a place in everything. It really annoys me when people say " i dont read" or " i dont like books". These statements are not thought out. You realize that at any moment of your life you are reading, and responding to those words. Reading is not a chore. Reading just happens when you scan your eyes across something. I am also quite positive that somewhere out there exists a book that you will read and enjoy enough to finish. After discovering this you will seek out more books like this and continue your expedition into reading.
Another course i took that changed my thought outlook on life was philosophy. This one course teaches you to think about things differently. You learn about arguments and subjective and objective truths. This course is sort of what brought me to my stance on religions. My entire life christianity has been pushed on me in a odd manner. My family stopped going to church when i was about 10. I never really thought about my religion other than that it was there. I never thought that other ways of spiritual thinking existed or were valid just because i was raised this certain, semi christian way. I have come to believe that whatever religion you practice is the right one for you only if you believe it yourself. I think that if it is just passed on from your family and you just go along with things, than you are believing for the wrong reasons. I think that in order to validate religion in your own mind, you have to seek it out, read into it and truly believe for yourself. Gandhi's views were like this. He saw religion as a personal path to your own understanding of God. I do not see myself as a "christian" persay, but i do believe in the aspect of a God. Though i constantly debate things like this in my head. I also dislike the stubborness of certain religious people. They were brought up on a certain religion and this was cemented into them. They do not look at objective facts or truths about anything else, and just look at other ways of thinking as false. I think that in order for something to be valid in your mind, you must be able to debate it and think about it. You should have reasons for what you believe in, other than just how you were raised to think.
as i am sitting home on this summer day, i am realizing that throughout my life i have been in drastically different settings and through different mindsets. At this time i can for once say i am content with my life and my friends and even my family ( to a certain extent)
Being back home is sometimes difficult because i see people that i used to talk to and even befriend. I see them in different parts of their lives that do not include me. This doesnt anger me, but it makes me realize how people change and lives change, and perceptions change.
As of now i am getting ready for another semester away at college. I could not be more eager to start. My life at college is very exciting and energetic. At home in summer i am lazy and frequently bored. So if anyone read this, i would like to say... i was bored and....
piss.. on a pony..