I came before a tree and in that moment learned more in silent beauty than from the noisey ignorance
"[Quoting Henry David Thoreau]
Neil: I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Dead Poets Society
My grades have been hitting the fan lately. I don't know why - I know the stuff I am writing and I feel like I aced it... but when the grades come back they seem to prove I know nothing. Perhaps I have gained the ignorance I feared for so long... Oh Socrates remind me I know nothing so that I can begin to learn.
Carpe Diem as they say, 'Seize the Day'. A phrase that struck me hard as I watched Dead Poets Society in Philosophy of Film and Lit yesterday. I have not been seizing much of my life lately. I am all ambitions, no zeal - no drive to move towards my dreams. Is that not always the case?
"I don't wanna live like my mother/I don't want to let fear rule my life/I don't wanna live like my father/I don't wanna give up before I die/" ~ Silhouettes - Smile Empty Soul
I need to push through this - I need to work hard. No... I do not 'need'... but 'want'. I strive to know and I love to learn... I have not been happy because I am not trying any more. Enough of that - it is time to step up and seize the day.
Neil: I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Dead Poets Society
My grades have been hitting the fan lately. I don't know why - I know the stuff I am writing and I feel like I aced it... but when the grades come back they seem to prove I know nothing. Perhaps I have gained the ignorance I feared for so long... Oh Socrates remind me I know nothing so that I can begin to learn.
Carpe Diem as they say, 'Seize the Day'. A phrase that struck me hard as I watched Dead Poets Society in Philosophy of Film and Lit yesterday. I have not been seizing much of my life lately. I am all ambitions, no zeal - no drive to move towards my dreams. Is that not always the case?
"I don't wanna live like my mother/I don't want to let fear rule my life/I don't wanna live like my father/I don't wanna give up before I die/" ~ Silhouettes - Smile Empty Soul
I need to push through this - I need to work hard. No... I do not 'need'... but 'want'. I strive to know and I love to learn... I have not been happy because I am not trying any more. Enough of that - it is time to step up and seize the day.