May 05, 2003 13:05
None of the weird things I thought--Anything weird I thought didn't matter before--all the weaknesses and inconsistencies and things, assumptions, conclusions that were downright wrong--didn't matter, because I didn't tell them to anyone--I got away with them. What this year and this place and these people have done is to force me to challenge these tassumptions, scrutinize them outside of the comfortable refuge of home and friends. It's been painful, but I think it's also been good for me--no more resting lazily on comfortable, safe thoughts and opinions--if I do choose to keep them, I'll at least have a reason for each one.
Some things have been confirmed, too--that most people aren't happy, not really; we're all too discontented with ourselves and our lives and
cmu,
ponderings,
growing up