Matt, I just try to actually care about another human being. Like spending 4 hours talking to a friend and a friend of a friend (both of whom I've never actually meet) and trying to fix up this really fucked up confusion and overwelming situation by just letting them talk when I have my first paper of college due the next day, haven't finished my rough draft and chose to do it on Raymond Williams' essya "From Medium to Social Practice" (quote: "It is only when the working process and it's results are seen or interperted in the deraded forms of material commodity production that the significant protest - the denial of materiality by these necessary workers with material - is made and promected into abstracted 'higher' or 'spiritual' forms") which kept me up past 4 am the night before and to 5 am that night. That was Sunday/Monday. But I don't regret it at all. I'll probly do it again some time.
I guess my point is that I try to keep thing slightly right in the world through self sacraffice for others. And I'm an athiest who believes in no little spiritual rewards.
Isn't change something that can only be attained through sacrifice, though? Doesn't everyone have to give up a little part of themselves to actually effect change? I agree with you completely, and I can't tell you how many times I've stayed up talking to someone when I had other responsibilities, and how many times I would do the same, over and over and over again, and probably will do, because I care about people. I don't even have to know someone well to care about them or how they feel. I understand completely where you're coming from. I'm also implying that there is no need for this to be connected to religion. Religion is all well and good, but everyone fights over it, and why doesn't anyone ever propose that maybe they're all right? Maybe there's really nothing left to fight about?
I don't know if there really was a point to this, but I felt that I should clarify a little bit, because I think that part of my intention for posting this was misinterpreted. I understand that one person can change the world of another person, but I want so much more than that. I want to impact so many more people than those who I just know well, and that's what I'm making this post for. Aspiring to help the multitudes does not exclude helping those you know well, and both are usually possible, despite conflicts. As I said, I'm not sure if I'm driving at a point, but these are things I felt I should say.
Like spending 4 hours talking to a friend and a friend of a friend (both of whom I've never actually meet) and trying to fix up this really fucked up confusion and overwelming situation by just letting them talk when I have my first paper of college due the next day, haven't finished my rough draft and chose to do it on Raymond Williams' essya "From Medium to Social Practice" (quote: "It is only when the working process and it's results are seen or interperted in the deraded forms of material commodity production that the significant protest - the denial of materiality by these necessary workers with material - is made and promected into abstracted 'higher' or 'spiritual' forms") which kept me up past 4 am the night before and to 5 am that night. That was Sunday/Monday. But I don't regret it at all. I'll probly do it again some time.
I guess my point is that I try to keep thing slightly right in the world through self sacraffice for others. And I'm an athiest who believes in no little spiritual rewards.
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I don't know if there really was a point to this, but I felt that I should clarify a little bit, because I think that part of my intention for posting this was misinterpreted. I understand that one person can change the world of another person, but I want so much more than that. I want to impact so many more people than those who I just know well, and that's what I'm making this post for. Aspiring to help the multitudes does not exclude helping those you know well, and both are usually possible, despite conflicts. As I said, I'm not sure if I'm driving at a point, but these are things I felt I should say.
~Matt
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