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For the first time in a very long while, I am having issues defining who I am and whether or not the person who I have become is true to my nature.
There were always some things which were clear to me, and now it is those which were clear that are the most questioned.
They say that college is where one discovers his or her true self.
At what point does one decided between the self that occurs as a result of necessity or the self that is occurs as a result of inner truth?
Are they polar opposites or similar?
Is there truth within ourselves and how do we find it? At what point to we know whether our motives are true or are fables we tell ourselves so we can feel that we adhere to our own moral code?
Is my dream my own or is it the dream of those around me? Is it right to sacrifice the present in order to preserve a future that may never occur?
At what point we go from correcting our flaws to covering them? Is it more true to one's self to embrace one's flaws rather than try and correct them?
If so, how do we better ourselves?
At what point does one not get up and continue the fight after being knocked down? Where is the line drawn between reward and self-injury? Is it ever right to give up the fight that is in your heart?
How do we balance the mind and the soul? How do we know which is speaking to us? How do we know which is correct?
Is knowledge sin? Are we meant to be eternally blissful and ignorant under the protection of God? If yes, would I live my life differently? If yes, can God be wrong?
In the same way that people say religion has down the world more bad than good, can the same be said for love?
If yes, is my duty to the world, or to myself?
Do we exist outside of ourselves? Do I exist outside of myself?
What causes the connection between two people? What causes the connection between one and not the other?
Where is the line between bad and good? Is one person's bad not another's good? Can there be, therefore, true good or true evil?
If I do not have a soul, an energy, a spirit beyond the explainations of science, how can I ask such questions? How can I be me?
What would it mean to simply be matter?
What is my place in the history of the world, the universe and time? Should I care?
At what point does life become life?
Why do I care so much about the thoughts of other people? As long as I remain true to what I believe I am, does it matter?
Why is it that the things which make me happiest often are those with the power to make me the sadest as well?
What is the meaning of family?
Why has society made it superficial to value beauty? What is wrong with admiring beauty?
Logically, what is immoral, impure or sinful about lust and sex? How is it possible for people to view sex as sin and not hate?
Why do we question? We do we as a species seek more than simple biological survival and reproduction?
It's funny. It's cliche.
But it seems
the more I know, the more I know I know nothing.
and that's okay.
There were always some things which were clear to me, and now it is those which were clear that are the most questioned.
They say that college is where one discovers his or her true self.
At what point does one decided between the self that occurs as a result of necessity or the self that is occurs as a result of inner truth?
Are they polar opposites or similar?
Is there truth within ourselves and how do we find it? At what point to we know whether our motives are true or are fables we tell ourselves so we can feel that we adhere to our own moral code?
Is my dream my own or is it the dream of those around me? Is it right to sacrifice the present in order to preserve a future that may never occur?
At what point we go from correcting our flaws to covering them? Is it more true to one's self to embrace one's flaws rather than try and correct them?
If so, how do we better ourselves?
At what point does one not get up and continue the fight after being knocked down? Where is the line drawn between reward and self-injury? Is it ever right to give up the fight that is in your heart?
How do we balance the mind and the soul? How do we know which is speaking to us? How do we know which is correct?
Is knowledge sin? Are we meant to be eternally blissful and ignorant under the protection of God? If yes, would I live my life differently? If yes, can God be wrong?
In the same way that people say religion has down the world more bad than good, can the same be said for love?
If yes, is my duty to the world, or to myself?
Do we exist outside of ourselves? Do I exist outside of myself?
What causes the connection between two people? What causes the connection between one and not the other?
Where is the line between bad and good? Is one person's bad not another's good? Can there be, therefore, true good or true evil?
If I do not have a soul, an energy, a spirit beyond the explainations of science, how can I ask such questions? How can I be me?
What would it mean to simply be matter?
What is my place in the history of the world, the universe and time? Should I care?
At what point does life become life?
Why do I care so much about the thoughts of other people? As long as I remain true to what I believe I am, does it matter?
Why is it that the things which make me happiest often are those with the power to make me the sadest as well?
What is the meaning of family?
Why has society made it superficial to value beauty? What is wrong with admiring beauty?
Logically, what is immoral, impure or sinful about lust and sex? How is it possible for people to view sex as sin and not hate?
Why do we question? We do we as a species seek more than simple biological survival and reproduction?
It's funny. It's cliche.
But it seems
the more I know, the more I know I know nothing.
and that's okay.